The blindness to the destruction in my wake. (All of this I'm just assuming, because I have no idea how I come across, my consciousness is that underground, like a toad in winter.) The leaving the world a worse place just by being in it. The ghost-walking, the short-tempered distraction, the hurried fog. The grinding it out was a disgrace, an affront to the honor and long shot of being alive at all. The waking up just to get the day over with until it was time for bed.

Read Excerptīecause the other way wasn't working. Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living. Just when it seems like things can’t go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret. It’s also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office - but not Eleanor - that he’s on vacation. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother’s company. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. But today, she will tackle the little things.

A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.Įleanor knows she’s a mess.

Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple