Funny story
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Published
New York : Berkley, [2024].
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| Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central - Adult Fiction - NEW | F HENRY | Checked Out | May 17, 2025 |
| Central - Adult Fiction - NEW | F HENRY | Checked Out | May 12, 2025 |
| Central - Adult Fiction - NEW | F HENRY | Checked Out | May 8, 2025 |
| Central - Adult Fiction - NEW | F HENRY | Checked Out | April 4, 2025 |
| Central - Adult Fiction - NEW | F HENRY | Checked Out | May 14, 2025 |
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME · NPR · ELLE · Parade · Woman’s World and more! Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?
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Published
New York : Berkley, [2024].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
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"Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only other non-Peter-related person she knows: Petra's heartbroken ex, Miles Nowak. Just until she can get a new dream job literally anywhere else. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is entirely the opposite of buttoned-up Daphne, and they mainly avoid one another until one night, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot. He'll show her why he loves this idyllic town and its residents, and if they happen to post deliberately misleading photos of their adventures together--for a particular audience of two--who could blame them? Miles believes Daphne deserves the chance to build a life here, her own life. As she begins to fall for the town, Daphne wonders what this summer is supposed to mean. Is it just for fun? An interlude to her own love story? Or maybe it was never meant to be a love story? Maybe it was just an anecdote to share at future dinner parties: that time she fell in love with her ex-fiancé's new fiancée's ex-boyfriend. Who's to say?"-- Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Henry, E. (2024). Funny story . Berkley.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Henry, Emily. 2024. Funny Story. New York: Berkley.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Henry, Emily. Funny Story New York: Berkley, 2024.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Henry, E. (2024). Funny story. New York: Berkley.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Henry, Emily. Funny Story Berkley, 2024.
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