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Claudio and Mathilde Simone, once romantic bohemians hopelessly enamored with each other, find themselves nestled in domesticity in New York, running a struggling vinyl record store and parenting three daughters, Natasha, Lucy, and Carly, as best they can. With prose that is as keen and illuminating as it is whimsical and luminous, debut author Christine Reilly tells the unusual love story of this family. Poignant and humane, Sunday's on the Phone to Monday is a deft exploration of the tender ties that bind families together, even as they threaten to tear them apart.
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"A lyrical, and lyric-filled, portrait of a family in love and sorrow."
Kirkus (Starred Review)
"Sunday's on the Phone to Monday reveals how trouble, when visited upon a loving family, can be transformed-if imperfectly-by curiosity, empathy, and imagination. We're in a poet's hands; every sentence here crackles with electric vitality. This is a unique and big-hearted novel."
Pamela Erens, author of The Virgins
"Reilly's debut novel explores how a love evolves as responsibilities mount for two parents with three very different daughters…deft in her characterizations…full of imaginative anecdotes and vibrant details…Reilly's first novel is touching and nostalgic."
Publishers Weekly