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Heavy Cream

Heavy Cream

Blakley-Cartwright, Sarah

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $28.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 29, 2026

ISBN10: 1668217740
ISBN13: 9781668217740
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
A magic spell of a book. --Julie Buntin

Heavy Cream is funny, deeply felt, and positively effervescent, brimming with life and color and texture--I was repeatedly struck by its humor, its compassion, and its candor. --Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had

Abandoned by her mother in New York, sixteen-year-old Geraldine falls under the influence of three women, each seeking to form her in their image, in this wildly perceptive (Stefan Merrill Block, New York Times bestselling author of Homeschooled) coming-of-age story from the bestselling author of Alice Sadie Celine.

For Gerry, growing up on the road has always been her mother and her, locked in dysfunction. Homeschooled, she hasn't learned much math. Instead, her mother has taught her how to spend the day at a motel's swimming pool without being a guest and how to dodge paying extra for the chicken on a Caesar salad.

Gerry learns how to pass and adapt, but when she is abandoned in the city, she finds herself in the care of three very different women, each intent on shaping her into competing and incompatible selves. First, there is her mother's old college friend Bonnie, who lives in a world of country clubs and chintzy domesticity. Then there is Nell, her mother's estranged sister and a successful artist, who insists on ambition and self-invention. And finally Finley, an old-money socialite, who ushers Gerry into a rarefied world of Manhattan privilege.

A coming-of-age novel story that explores unconventional forms of motherhood and caretaking, Heavy Cream is both a charming comedy of manners and a deeply probing look at the complexities of love, mental illness, and inheritance, and one young woman's eccentric path to selfhood.

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