Teaser Tuesday for September 13, 2016

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read (or the next book on your reading list)
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 “It should have come as no surprise to Eleanor that Lester’s party, her baby sister Ivy, Ivy the willowy, translucent one with the fluttery aura (she was the air and Eleanor was the earth), Ivy six-foot-one in ninth grade, who, a week before high school graduation went to model in Paris and then Japan but had no luck in New York where it mattered, who followed an acting coach to the Berkshires which ended up being a cult and had to be rescued by Eleanor and her then-boyfriend Joe, Ivy who miraculously booked a Dior campaign so her face was all over the subways one summer but lost all that money and her modeling connections in an ironically named Ponzi scheme, “Friends Helping Friends,” Ivy who hitchhiked to Telluride for an ayahuasca ceremony and stayed three years shacking up with the shaman, Mestre Mike, next finding religion in Fat is a Feminist Issue, Toxic Parents and Healing the Shame that Binds You, this Ivy who became a certified masseuse but quit because the constant transfer of bad energy was making her weak, she was allergic to wheat and cut out sugar before anyone was allergic to wheat and cut out sugar, she also refused to eat meat because it was biting into animal screams and she avoided nuts because viruses clung to nuts, the Ivy whose skin had become dry and eye sockets saggy, who couldn’t shake her angry dry cough, who Eleanor’s by-then-husband, Joe, a surgeon who knew a dying bulimic when he saw one, checked into an Eating Disorder Unit on Second Avenue where Ivy was forced on arrival to eat a Sloppy Joe on a white bun, despite sobbing and gagging and collapsing on the linoleum floor, Ivy who was now answering phones for David Parry, rock-and-roll manager and husband of Violet, the heat writer of Looper Wash, as a personal favor to Eleanor, Ivy who was now thirty-three and healthy if getting a little old for her act, it was this Ivy who came to Lester’s party, it was this Ivy who met Bucky, captivated Bucky, went back to St. Regis with Bucky, and now to New Orleans the next day.

“A year later they were married.”

—  Today Will be Different by Maria Semple. (Pages 133-4 of the print version.)

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment on Jenn’s latest post, here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!