04761cam a2200817 4500 2468058948 TxAuBib 20250801120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781668084236 1668084236 B0DJ9XYS8B Amazon 8aa13a60-a298-43d0-b839-857f00990533 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11216931 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Yee, Katie. Maggie [Libby eBook] : Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar. S&S/Summit Books, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. contemporary fiction. books about marriage. asian american books. Asian American novel. best book club reads. books about family. millennial fiction. literary fiction. Chinese American. chinese folklore. the incendiaries. crying in h mart. Modern fiction. summer reading. breast cancer. mental health. Jenny Offill. joan is okay. comic novel. debut novel. Nora Ephron. funny books. millennials. motherhood. tragicomic. Heartbreak. aapi books. Womanhood. Zeitgeist. heritage. brooklyn. children. New York. Anxiety. Healing. Divorce. lit fic. family. cancer. affair. Humor. funny. grief. HTML:Summer's Best Beach Reads by The New York Times <li> Books You Should Read This July by New York magazine <ul> <li>Books We're Most Excited About by Today • Best Beach Reads by Harper's Bazaar • Best Books of Summer by ELLE • Most Anticipated Books of the Summer by Time • Best Summer Reads by Oprah Daily • Books to Read this Summer by The Washington Post "Feels pleasurably like clicking through the back archives of a webcomic or lingering over lunch with an old friend. As with Nora Ephron's Heartburn...you read Maggie to spend time with its author." —The Washington Post A Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her life falls apart in a taut, wry debut novel that grapples with grief, motherhood, and myths—perfect for fans of Joan Is Okay and Crying in H Mart. A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie. A short while after, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room, where she finds out the pain in her breast isn't just heartbreak—it's cancer. She decides to call the tumor Maggie. Unfolding in fragments over the course of the ensuing months, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar follows the narrator as she embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation. She starts talking to Maggie (the tumor), getting acquainted with her body's new inhabitant. She overgenerously creates a "Guide to My Husband: A User's Manual" for Maggie (the other woman), hoping to ease the process of discovering her ex-husband's whims and quirks. She turns her children's bedtime stories into retellings of Chinese folklore passed down by her own mother, in an attempt to make them fall in love with their shared culture—and to maybe save herself in the process. In the style of Jenny Offill and the tradition of Nora Ephron's hilarious and devastating writing on heartbreak and womanhood, Maggie is a master class in transforming personal tragedy into a form of defiant comedy.</li> </ul> </li>. Humor (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-08-01 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8aa13a60-a298-43d0-b839-857f00990533&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8aa13a60-a298-43d0-b839-857f00990533&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)