![]() ![]() ![]() At the heart of it all is “The Flood Girls,” Eleanor’s quirky illustrated rendering of her early family drama, which also has gone missing. ![]() But meanwhile lunch with the erstwhile loser allows Semple to slip into third person to recount Eleanor’s history. Plot may not be your favorite part of “Today Will Be Different,” especially when we finally find Joe. Timby’s tummy ache, for instance, is brought on by “bullying”: a classmate “told me I bought my shirt at Target.” Eleanor’s dreaded lunch date is an untalented loser she once let go from “Looper Wash,” now a wildly successful artist with a show at the Seattle Sculpture Park.Īnd the sculpture park, by lucky coincidence, is not only a clue to Joe’s whereabouts, it’s a great setting for knock-down, drag-out slapstick. While the mystery of Joe’s disappearance supplies the book with the somewhat shaky architecture of plot, all the in-between business keeps us happily occupied with its peculiar mash-up of the madcap and the poignant. Semple, who has written for the TV shows “Mad About You” and “Arrested Development,” has a singular genius for turning the ordinary inside-out and looking at it slantwise. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. ![]()
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