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American fantasy / Emma Straub.

Author/creator	Straub, Emma author.
Format	Book
Publication	New York, NY : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.
Copyright Date	©2026
Description	286 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	Boy bands--Fiction. Divorced women--Fiction. Middle-aged women--Fiction. Ocean travel--Fiction. Cruise ships--Fiction. Friendship--Fiction. Fame--Fiction. Fans (Persons)--Fiction. Nostalgia--Fiction. Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Abstract	"When the 'American Fantasy' cruise ship sets sail for a four-day themed voyage, aboard are all five members of a famous nineties-era boy band and three thousand screaming women who have worshipped them since childhood. Feeling slightly out of place amid this crowd is Annie, newly divorced, fifty years old with an empty nest, and here on a lark to appease her sister. Yet when the lights come up and the idols of her youth begin to sing, something is unlocked. Call it memory. Call it nostalgia. Call it the chemical reaction of hormones, hope, and sexual reawakening. Between the slushy alcoholic drinks, the familiar music, and the throngs of middle-aged women acting like lovesick teenagers, Annie finally reconnects to a long-submerged part of herself. By the time she meets one of the band members--not just a celebrity but someone in need of a friend--she has accessed a new sense of possibility. In a smart and incisive book packed with laugh-out-loud reflections on fame, marriage, and middle age, Emma Straub delivers a richly textured story showing us that real passion is never truly lost, that what we love makes us who we are, and that deep meaning can sometimes be found in a sea of screaming fans."-- Front jacket flap.
Issued in other form	Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Straub, Emma American fantasy New York : Riverhead Books, 2026 9798217046867
Genre/form	Romance fiction.
Genre/form	Romance fiction.
Genre/form	Novels.
Genre/form	Fiction.
Genre/form	Romans.
LCCN	2025016666
ISBN	9798217046850 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book

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