Catherine Newman 2 Book Collection Set: We All Want Impossible Things & Sandwich - Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set
We All Want Impossible Things
Sandwich

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Overview
This paperback set brings together two beloved, character-driven novels by Catherine Newman: We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich. Both books explore the tender, funny, and sometimes messy realities of love, friendship, and family with Newman's signature warmth and wit. We All Want Impossible Things follows lifelong best friends Edi and Ash as illness tests their decades-long bond, while Sandwich centers on a mother navigating a Cape Cod family vacation sandwiched between growing kids and aging parents. Together, these two acclaimed novels make a thoughtful gift set for readers who love honest, big-hearted contemporary fiction.

About the Books
We All Want Impossible Things introduces Edi and Ash, best friends for over forty years, as Edi enters hospice care and Ash keeps vigil at her bedside. Newman fills the hospital room with the pair's inside jokes and unwavering devotion, turning a story about dying into a celebration of how fully two people can know and love each other. Critics have praised the novel's ability to hold grief and humor in the same breath, earning acclaim from Publishers Weekly and bestselling authors alike, including Ann Patchett and Elin Hilderbrand. Sandwich, an instant New York Times bestseller, follows Rocky during her family's annual week at a rented Cape Cod cottage. With her half-grown kids on one side and aging parents on the other, Rocky finds herself squeezed in the middle of life's most tender transitions amid the upheaval of midlife. A chain of small revelations forces her to confront long-held secrets and reimagine what her family needs from her. Both novels share Newman's gift for finding profound meaning in ordinary domestic moments: a shared meal, a beach walk, a hospital visit. Her prose balances humor with heartbreak on nearly every page. Paired together, they offer a satisfying reading experience about the relationships that shape a life, from decades-long friendship to the shifting responsibilities of caring for children and parents at once.

Key Benefits

• Two stand-alone novels by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Newman in one paperback set
• Sandwich is an instant New York Times bestseller praised for its wit and honesty
• Character-driven contemporary fiction ideal for book clubs and adult readers
• Explores friendship, family, caregiving, and midlife change
• Brand-new paperback copies, perfect for gifting
• Compact size, great for vacation, beach, or airplane reading

Book-by-Book Guide
We All Want Impossible Things — Best friends Edi and Ash confront illness and hospice with humor, honesty, and forty years of shared history.
Sandwich — A mother named Rocky navigates a Cape Cod family vacation squeezed between her half-grown children and her aging parents.

About the Author
Catherine Newman is a New York Times bestselling author known for blending humor with emotional honesty. Beyond We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich, an instant New York Times bestseller, she has written the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy and the bestselling kids' life-skills book How to Be a Person. She is a longtime contributor to the New York Times and Real Simple, and writes the Crone Sandwich newsletter on Substack. Newman lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family.

Why You'll Love This Collection
This pairing captures Catherine Newman at her funniest and most tender, achingly true to life. Perfect for book clubs, birthday gifts, Mother's Day, or a summer reading stack, these two acclaimed novels celebrate friendship and family with a warmth readers will want to share, discuss, and revisit again and again.

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