Catherine Newman writes fiction, memoir and family essays about parenting, friendship, ageing and the practical texture of close relationships. We All Want Impossible Things follows two lifelong friends as one enters hospice with terminal cancer, balancing grief with ordinary conversation, food, family and dark humour. Sandwich shifts to a family holiday on Cape Cod, where a middle-aged woman is caught between ageing parents, adult children and her own changing body. Newman's earlier non-fiction, including Waiting for Birdy, approaches pregnancy and parenthood through anxious, comic personal essays. Her prose is warm, funny and sharply observant, with domestic details doing much of the emotional work. Her books fit contemporary family fiction, friendship novels and memoir-like parenting writing. Read more Less
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