Host Family
by Mameve Medwed
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Daisy and Henry Lewis have been married for twenty years. They live near Harvard University where they have long served as a host family for its International students. With the departure of their son for college the empty nest turns into a gaping hole. Henry starts calling himself Henri, spattering his conversations with au contraires and mais ouis. She should have seen "it" coming. On the night they win the Host Family award, Henry tells Daisy over sushi that their marriage is finis. Daisy show more tries to pick up the pieces by falling in love with a parasitologist named Truman Wolff who finds extraordinary similarities between the behaviour of tapeworms and humans. But just as life is regaining some equilibrium, the arrival of a devastatingly good-looking Italian student shakes up the symbiotic combinations and challenges everything Daisy and believes about the meaning of family and the meaning of love. show lessTags
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Interesting story about a couple that have been a host family to foreign college students for 20 years. They even get an award, but the husband wants to end the marriage. Why? Because he fell for the most recent French college student! What follows is how the wife carries on with her life, becomes involved with another man, deals with her son's heartbreak, and other things. Some of the characters are likable and some are despicable. Just a book to pass the time, not great.
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- Original publication date
- 2000
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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