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Leopold Portman, a young IT manager a few years out of college, dreams of settling down in Philly's bucolic suburbs with his fiancé, Nora. A talented singer in mourning for her mother, Nora has abandoned a promising opera career and wonders what her destiny holds. Her best friend, Stephen, Leopold's brother, dithers in his seventh year of graduate school and privately questions Leo and Nora's relationship. On June 16, 2004, the three are brought together - first for a funeral, then for an annual Bloomsday party. As the long-simmering tensions between them come to a head, they are forced to confront the choices of their pasts and their hopes for the future.

Wenn du niemandem mehr vertraust, kannst du auch einem singenden Fisch folgen. Die sechzehnjährige Ella lebt in Dortmund und hat beschlossen, keine Freundschaften mehr zu führen. Zu groß ist die Angst, dass sie andere Menschen durch ihre Wutanfälle vergrault. Die Ehe ihrer Eltern ist am Boden, und auch zu ihren zwei Geschwistern findet Ella keinen Zugang. Ihr einziger Vertrauter war stets der alte Eckard, ein Nachbar der Familie, der Ella kurz vor seinem Tod einen singenden Plastikfisch vermacht.

A novel to warm the heart, tickle the tastebuds and take you on the journey of a lifetime. Addy Mayford has always struggled with her identity. Brought up in a household of stories, food and faith by her Irish mother and Pakistani Nana, she feels constantly torn between the two sides of her upbringing. Since the death of her father, she's found contentment cooking delicious recipes from his home city of Lahore, despite the protestations of her mother that being a chef is no career for a young woman.