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Blending bittersweet humor and defiant originality, this stunning debut about a woman rediscovering herself after a divorce explores the heartbreaking and sometimes funny aspects of the mess called love.
Barb Barrett has inadequate skills for relationships. In particular, she cannot follow her husband's instructions. Because of this character "flaw," she falls through the safety net of her lousy marriage, losing custody of her children and her home as she plummets. Guided only by her intense inner life, and a questionable business plan, Barb is determined to reinvent herself. She moves into a house once occupied by the literary genius Vladimir Nabokov, author of the notorious Lolita. She discovers what could be Nabokov's last unpublished manuscript and from there begins a painful yet joyous journey that is deliciously romantic, both darkly comic and wise.
Introducing a dazzling new voice in fiction, Cleaning Nabokov's House will enchant women's fiction lovers with an accessible and engaging voice they will come to cherish. Title Info. Dedication. The Blue Pot
Camping
Onkwedo
House
Mail
Darcy
Book
Typing
Lawyer
Agent
Nest
Breakfast
Cream
Onkwedo Elementary
Lunch
Inspection
Two Things
Good Times Pants
Authentic
Last Visit
Dog
The Blue Door
Template
Happy Hour
Paint
Rudy Again
Bistro Moutarde
Pencil Skirt
Crowbar
Lodge
Ikea
End of the Year
Opening Day
The Change
Bank and Laundry
Mature Romance
Date
Underpants Arrive
Weekend
Steady Employment
Lemonade
Wedding Plans
Butter
Dead Car
On the Lake
Wedding
First Copy
Bookstore
The Day After
Birthday
John at Work
Girl
Conference
Hotel
Ringer
Science
Chambers
Ivy League
Goodbye, Cathouse
More Mail
Cherry Vanilla Ice Cream
Pastry
Autumn
Full Term
Onkwedo
"Cleaning Nabokov's House is original and compelling, the sort of book that keeps a reader on her toes-wildly funny one minute and profoundly sober the next. The protagonist is delightful, the plot a marvelous weave of sex, food, money, and motherhood. Every page a joy."
"The pleasures of the novel unfold in a series of tantalizing, laugh-out-loud twists. The portrayals are as heartrending as the writing is dead-on funny, and the storytelling is both quirky and captivating. I was swept along like a trout in a clear stream. Bravo."
"In spite of its odd title, this is a wonderfully original, charming, and funny novel about what to do when your world has turned upside down, and how to get through a long cold rural winter by opening a house of ill repute."
"In Barbara, Leslie Daniels has created a character to root for."
"Daniels accesses some new territory while still giving readers what they want when they want in a light, semi-literary romantic comedy…Authentic, often devastating depictions of a mother missing her children…raise this book above the rest."
"Vladimir Nabokov, a small town's sex trade, and a mother's fight to win back her children don't often have much to do with one another. But in Cleaning Nabokov's House they do-and brilliantly so. There is not a false note or flat phrase anywhere in this surprising, moving, sexy, and very, very funny book. Leslie Daniels has written one of those rare tales that makes you wish you could meet all of the characters for tea-and makes you regret that they exist only in the author's imagination. But what an extraordinary imagination it is."
"Literature and Letters meet the oldest profession at the hand of one of the most hysterical narrators to come along in ages. Cleaning Nabokov's House is an epic comedy told in an epic new voice."
"Daniels is warmly funny and audacious in this shrewd and saucy mix of family drama, gender discord, sexual healing, and high literature; a raucous yet sensitive tale of one quirky woman's struggle to overcome the lowest of low self-esteem to get motherhood and love right."
"Daniels writes her story
Barb Barrett has inadequate skills for relationships. In particular, she cannot follow her husband's instructions. Because of this character "flaw," she falls through the safety net of her lousy marriage, losing custody of her children and her home as she plummets. Guided only by her intense inner life, and a questionable business plan, Barb is determined to reinvent herself. She moves into a house once occupied by the literary genius Vladimir Nabokov, author of the notorious Lolita. She discovers what could be Nabokov's last unpublished manuscript and from there begins a painful yet joyous journey that is deliciously romantic, both darkly comic and wise.
Introducing a dazzling new voice in fiction, Cleaning Nabokov's House will enchant women's fiction lovers with an accessible and engaging voice they will come to cherish. Title Info. Dedication. The Blue Pot
Camping
Onkwedo
House
Darcy
Book
Typing
Lawyer
Agent
Nest
Breakfast
Cream
Onkwedo Elementary
Lunch
Inspection
Two Things
Good Times Pants
Authentic
Last Visit
Dog
The Blue Door
Template
Happy Hour
Paint
Rudy Again
Bistro Moutarde
Pencil Skirt
Crowbar
Lodge
Ikea
End of the Year
Opening Day
The Change
Bank and Laundry
Mature Romance
Date
Underpants Arrive
Weekend
Steady Employment
Lemonade
Wedding Plans
Butter
Dead Car
On the Lake
Wedding
First Copy
Bookstore
The Day After
Birthday
John at Work
Girl
Conference
Hotel
Ringer
Science
Chambers
Ivy League
Goodbye, Cathouse
More Mail
Cherry Vanilla Ice Cream
Pastry
Autumn
Full Term
Onkwedo
"Cleaning Nabokov's House is original and compelling, the sort of book that keeps a reader on her toes-wildly funny one minute and profoundly sober the next. The protagonist is delightful, the plot a marvelous weave of sex, food, money, and motherhood. Every page a joy."
"The pleasures of the novel unfold in a series of tantalizing, laugh-out-loud twists. The portrayals are as heartrending as the writing is dead-on funny, and the storytelling is both quirky and captivating. I was swept along like a trout in a clear stream. Bravo."
"In spite of its odd title, this is a wonderfully original, charming, and funny novel about what to do when your world has turned upside down, and how to get through a long cold rural winter by opening a house of ill repute."
"In Barbara, Leslie Daniels has created a character to root for."
"Daniels accesses some new territory while still giving readers what they want when they want in a light, semi-literary romantic comedy…Authentic, often devastating depictions of a mother missing her children…raise this book above the rest."
"Vladimir Nabokov, a small town's sex trade, and a mother's fight to win back her children don't often have much to do with one another. But in Cleaning Nabokov's House they do-and brilliantly so. There is not a false note or flat phrase anywhere in this surprising, moving, sexy, and very, very funny book. Leslie Daniels has written one of those rare tales that makes you wish you could meet all of the characters for tea-and makes you regret that they exist only in the author's imagination. But what an extraordinary imagination it is."
"Literature and Letters meet the oldest profession at the hand of one of the most hysterical narrators to come along in ages. Cleaning Nabokov's House is an epic comedy told in an epic new voice."
"Daniels is warmly funny and audacious in this shrewd and saucy mix of family drama, gender discord, sexual healing, and high literature; a raucous yet sensitive tale of one quirky woman's struggle to overcome the lowest of low self-esteem to get motherhood and love right."
"Daniels writes her story