Timby has been sent home from Galer Street after faking a tummy bug and she discovers that Joe has told his colleagues he’ll be taking a week off from work even though he’s told her he’d be at work. The plot follows Eleanor over the course of one day trying to navigate, well, life. OK to be fair, that’s where the similarities end. She’s tormented by annoying Galer Street parents and tech yuppies working for Microsoft Amazon. She lives with her precocious only child Bee Timby*, who attends Galer Street School (now located in a sprawling mansion on a hill.), her loyal but dopey hound Ice Cream Yo-Yo, and her loving but distracted husband Elgin Joe.
The protagonist, Bernadette Eleanor, is a wildly talented middle-aged architect illustrator who seems to have lost her creative mojo after moving from New York to boring suburban Seattle. With all the artistic madness, genius plotting, and bold social observation that made Bernadette a hit, TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT is a hilarious and heart filled day-in-the-life romp filtered through Maria Semple's brilliant eyes.ĭEJA VU, so much deja vu.This is a (sort of) sequel to Where'd You Go Bernadette, and there are several similarities between the two.
(It's true that it's Eleanor's fault: She did put makeup in his Christmas stocking.) Just when it seems like things can't get weirder or more in the way of Eleanor's personal transformation, a graphic memoir called The Flood Sisters surfaces, and the dramatic story it tells reveals long-buried secrets and a sister to whom Eleanor never speaks. Eleanor's husband is missing, and their son, Timby, is wearing eye shadow to school and getting into fashion battles on the playground. But then, as it always does, life happens. Meet Eleanor Flood, who wakes up one day determined to be her best self.Įleanor Flood is going to clean up her act, only change into yoga clothes for yoga, which today she will actually attend, and be a better version of herself. The new novel from Maria Semple, author of bestselling Where'd You Go, Bernadette and writer for hit US TV shows Ellen and Saturday Night Live.
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