Today Will Be Different — Content Guide for Parents
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- ReligionBrief
- Sexual contentBrief
- Gender rolesSupportingChallenges traditional roles
- Gender & orientationBrief
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- Violence
- Scary content
- Race & culture
- Climate
Couldn't confirm
- Profanity
- Profanity: Sources say Eleanor vows not to swear but do not show whether the book's text contains swear words.
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Religion
PRESENTContains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.
About this book
Named a Notable Book of 2016 by the Washington Post, one of Amazon's Top 100 Books of the Year, one of New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books, one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2016, one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, a Must-Read Book of 2016 by PopSugar, one of EW's 20 Best Books of 2016, one of Glamour's Top Ten Books of the Year, and one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best 100 Fiction Books of 2016"
A brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action-life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office-but not Eleanor-that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret.
TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.
Frequently asked questions
Is Today Will Be Different appropriate for a 7-year-old?
One review lists questions of faith among the book's themes, but no scene or character's belief is described. Eleanor plans to initiate sex with her husband and thinks about her body and his possible affair, with no sexual scene described.
Does Today Will Be Different have violence?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Today Will Be Different have scary content?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Today Will Be Different have religion?
Found (Brief): One review lists questions of faith among the book's themes, but no scene or character's belief is described.
Does Today Will Be Different have race & culture?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Today Will Be Different have profanity?
Couldn't confirm: Sources say Eleanor vows not to swear but do not show whether the book's text contains swear words.
Does Today Will Be Different have climate?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Today Will Be Different have sexual content?
Found (Brief): Eleanor plans to initiate sex with her husband and thinks about her body and his possible affair, with no sexual scene described.
Does Today Will Be Different have gender roles?
Found (Supporting, Challenges traditional roles): The story follows a former career woman who gave up work to focus on her child and marriage, and a review says it deals with the pressures of motherhood and middle age.
Does Today Will Be Different have gender & orientation?
Found (Brief): Eleanor jokes that her makeup-wearing young son's school would cheer that they have a transgender student, and one review says her husband wonders whether Timby might be gay.
