Rules for Visiting

A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year At forty, May Attaway is at home with plants than people Over the years, she s turned inward, finding pleasure in language, her work as a gardener, and keeping her neighbors at arm s length while keenly observing them But when she is unexpectedly granted some leave from her job, May is inspired to reconnect with four once close friends She knows they will never have a proper reunion, so she goes, one by one, to each of them A student of the classics, May considers her journey a female Odyssey What might the world have had if, instead of waiting, Penelope had set out on an adventure of her own RULES FOR VISITING is a woman s exploration of friendship in the digital age Deeply alert to the nobility and the ridiculousness of ordinary people, May savors the pleasures along the way afternoon ice cream with a long lost friend, surprise postcards from an unexpected crush, and a moving encounter with ancient beauty Though she gets a taste of viral online fame, May chooses to bypass her friends perfectly cultivated online lives to instead meet them in their messy analog ones.Ultimately, May learns that a best friend is someone who knows your story and she inspires us all to master the art of visiting. Best Download Kindle ePUB Rules for Visiting By Jessica Francis Kane – kino-fada.fr What are the Rules for rating your own bookI adore quiet, intimate books Books that are not perhaps laden with action and mad cap adventures but are brimming with vitality all the same Because they breathe life Books like these get to the core of what it means to be human They have a beating heart and connect with the reader on a soulful level Rules for Visiting is one such book It is majestic in its simplicity and honesty It is a book that made me laugh, made me cry, it made me pause for thought to reflect on my own life and th I adore quiet, intimate books Books that are not perhaps laden with action and mad cap adventures but are brimming with vitality all the same Because they breathe life Books like these get to the core of what it means to be human They have a beating heart and connect with the reader on a soulful level Rules for Visiting is one such book It is majestic in its simplicity and honesty It is a book that made me laugh, made me cry, it made me pause for thought to reflect on my own life and the f...Thank you to the publisher Penguin Press for providing an advance reader copy via Edelweiss.May Attaway is forty, single, childless, and still living at home with her widowed father She s a graduate of the Landscape Architecture program at her local university Landscape architects design harmonious natural plantings to augment a campus, parking lot, playground,or other public terrain Once she graduated from the program she took a job at the university with the grounds crew If you are a garde Thank you to the publisher Penguin Press for providing an advance reader copy via Ede...The library notified me that this book was being held for me on the same day that I finished Overstory, an intense novel about trees and forests and their importance in our world I knew I would need to follow that one with asoothing read, which this one was supposed to be, so I dutifully went across the street to pick it up I started right in and realized that this was just what I needed.What I didn t realize was how much I would love this story and the character of May Attaway May is a The library notified me that this book was being held for me on the same day that I finished Overstory, an intense novel about trees and forests and their importance in our world I knew I would need to follow that one with asoothing read, which this...Find all of my reviews all of my reviews usual, I didn t know much about this one before beginning other than it was about a woman who decides to visit four of her long time friends individually over the course of the book and that my own real life friend Regina recommended it to me I assumed the main character was most likely dying of some terminal disease since I m nothing if not consistently bleak in my outlook on Find all of my reviews all of my reviews usual, I didn t know much about this one before beginning other than it was about a woman who decides to visit four of her long time friends individually over the course of the book and that my own real life friend Regina recommended it to me I assumed the main character was most likely dying of some terminal disease since I m nothing if not consistently bleak in my outlook on things Turns out this was another selection that teaches the importance of living to a socially awkward semi recluse and that...Isn t every reading experience a visit to a character and the world they live in I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with May Attaway as she visits four of her friends Part of her journey is a scholarly and earnest pursuit to discover what it means to have an...I ve been thinking a lot about the role of friendship in my life lately in large part thanks to this book Jessica Francis Kane has crafted a beautifully subtle and surprisingly funny exploration of how we cope with grief over the long haul Friendship, it turns out, is the key, but so too is a powerful connection to the natural world The premise here is pretty clever May Attaway is a gardener at a local university A yew tree she planted years back has inspired an award winning poem by one of I ve been thinking a lot about the role of friendship in my life lately in large part thanks to this book Jessica Francis Kane has crafted a beautifully subtle and surprisingly funny exploration of how we cope with grief over the long haul Friendship, it turns out, is the key, but so too is a powerful connection to the...Someone recommended this novel to me, so I picked it up and am glad I did all about a woman who realizes she s lonely and decides to reconnect with old friends Plus trees Trees really seem to be having a moment, don t theyJessica Francis Kane s book, Rules for Visiting grows on you Much like the trees and grass spoken about in the book Much like how they are an intrinsic part of the book, as the protagonist is a gardener May Attaway, is a 40 year old gardener who lives in her parents home with her father, an 80 year old man inhabiting the basement his own accord May s mother died when she was 40 and this kicks off May s choice to change some things about her life The primary one being to go and visit four Jessica Francis Kane s book, Rules for Visiting grows on you Much like the trees and grass spoken about in the book Much like how they are an intrinsic part of the book, as the protagonist is a gardener May Attaway, is a 40 year old gardener who lives in her parents home with her father, an 80 year old man inhabiting the basement his own accord May s mother died when she was 40 and this kicks off May s choice to change some things about her life The primary one being to go and visit four of her women friends, with whom she has lost touch.Thank God that this book isn t one about intimacy of women that will give you the warm cuddly feeling It is an honest book about honest relationships, and how they are in life twisted, d...a contemplative, internal story about a woman who is most at home in her work, as a gardener on a university campus her world is small, and revolves around regularly scheduled activities work, home, a local restaurant may lives in her childhood home with her widowed father a professor at the same university where may works theirs is a quiet existence, yet there is the hint of tension just below the surface realizing how small she s been living, may reconnects with four friends she has not a contemplative, internal story about a woman who is most at home in her work, as a gardener on a university campus her world is small, and revolves around regularly scheduled ...

• English
• 15 March 2017
Jessica Francis Kane
• Hardcover
• 304 pages
• 0525559221
• Jessica Francis Kane
• Rules for Visiting