Early Morning Riser - Katherine Heiny

Early Morning Riser

By Katherine Heiny

  • Release Date: 2021-04-13
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
4
From 343 Ratings

Description

Alternately bittersweet and laugh-out-loud funny, a wise, bighearted novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family—from the acclaimed author of Standard Deviation, who has been called the "literary descendant of Jane Austen, sharing Austen's essentially comic world view" (NPR).   

Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere—at restaurants, at the grocery store, even three towns away.

While Jane may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she did not have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, a woman with shiny hair and pale milkmaid skin, still has Duncan mow her lawn. His coworker, Jimmy, comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Sometimes Jane wonders if a relationship can even work with three people in it—never mind four. Five if you count Aggie's eccentric husband, Gary. Not to mention all the other residents of Boyne City, who freely share with Jane their opinions of her choices.

But any notion Jane had of love and marriage changes with one terrible car crash. Soon Jane's life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and Jane knows she will never have Duncan to herself. But could it be possible that a deeper kind of happiness is right in front of Jane's eyes? Katherine Heiny's Early Morning Riser is her most astonishingly wonderful work to date.

Reviews

  • Just Meh

    2
    By Amigo73
    There’s no point to this book, other than family isn’t always about blood relations. I kept waiting for there to bea reason for the story, but there never was one.
  • Hysterical!

    5
    By Paleo Schnauzer
    I really was in a book slump, nothing recent was even enjoyable. Then came Jane. The book is literally a laugh a minute, or at least a laugh a paragraph for slower readers. If you are not LOL at someone or some description of something you must have something wrong with you. If you aren’t afraid to laugh out loud on a crowded bus, train or plane, buy this book. If you have young children or an early riser of your own, I suggest reading it when the household is up and about. Expletive will ask you what’s so funny and you’ll be tempted to read the funny sentence of paragraph. Don’t be. Just tell them they can read it when you are finished.
  • Reread many times!

    5
    By DaNicknameIsTaken
    I laughed so loud at this book! The quirky characters, the beautiful funny romance, very light hearted and just cozy. I’ve actually had this book for over a year now and this is my first review. It’s absolutely funny and I love to reread it again. I actually bought it to keep in my library. I only buy physical books I’ll keep and reread. Everything else is on my kindle.
  • Sigh,

    1
    By Faussie
    Meh…I kept asking myself why I was reading this book.
  • Great story!

    5
    By LA Duncan
    This was an unexpected find…a treasure! Sweet story that makes you root for the characters, and maybe relate to them also. There were a few places that I honestly laughed out loud!! So good!
  • So enjoyable

    5
    By 12345qwertfdsa
    Laughed out loud so many times! Constantly felt like calling my sister (who recommended this book) to tell her what the characters had just said.
  • Fantastic

    5
    By gray51830
    My favorite book of the year.
  • Unforgettable Characters and Stories

    5
    By Trish.Pr
    If you love character-driven novels, or have already read a Katherine Heiny novel before, you will love this one. The characters lift off the page. Heiny shows you who they are, doesn’t tell you, and I appreciate that so much. Although some may categorize this as a “romance” novel, it’s truly about found-family and growing and learning to love the quirky, unique, sometimes annoying and intolerable people who make up your “village”.
  • Surprising

    4
    By r0say8
    As I started to read this book I thought, “oh no this is going to be cheesy”, and then like “the flip switching and cartwheels becoming possible”, I wound up loving every quirky character in this touching story. Just loved it!
  • Don’t waste your time...

    1
    By #FreeBird
    Undeveloped characters with absolutely no plot...waste of time and money...don’t bother...