Cherry Baby

#1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell returns with a breathtakingly honest novel about a woman who lost everything -- and isn´t sure she wants it back. Everybody knows that Cherry´s husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie . . . Almost nobody knows that he isn´t coming home. Tom is the creator of Thursday--a semi-autobiographical webcomic that´s become an international phenomenon. Semi-autobiographical. That means there´s a character in this movie based on Cherry . . . "Baby." Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby. Cherry never wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page--let alone on the big screen. But there´s no getting away from it. Baby looks so much like Cherry that strangers recognize her at the grocery store. While her soon-to-be ex-husband is in Los Angeles getting rich and famous and being the Internet´s latest boyfriend, Cherry is stuck in Omaha taking care of the dog he always wanted and the house they were going to raise a family in . . . and wondering who she´s supposed to be without him. Cherry had promised to love Tom through thick and thin. She´d meant it. One night, Cherry decides to leave all her problems, including Tom´s overgrown puppy, at home. She ventures out to see her favorite band play her favorite album . . . and someone recognizes her from across the room. Russ Sutton knew Cherry when she was a young art student with a fondness for pin-up dresses and patent leather heels. Before Tom. Russ knows Cherry. He likes Cherry. And best of all . . . he´s never heard of Thursday. Tender, funny, and utterly human, Cherry Baby is Rainbow Rowell´s richest, most surprising--sexiest--novel yet.