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092    |fF|aOSTBY 
100 1  Ostby, Anne,|d1958-|eauthor. 
245 10 Pieces of happiness :|ba novel of friendship, hope and 
       chocolate /|cAnne Ostby. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bDoubleday,|c2017. 
300    299 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "When Sina, Maya, Ingrid, and Lisbeth each receive a 
       letter in the mail posing the same question, the answer is
       obvious. Their old high school friend Kat--Kat the 
       adventurer, Kat who ran away to the South Pacific as soon 
       as they graduated--has extended the invitation of a 
       lifetime: Come live with me on my cocoa farm in Fiji. Come
       spend the days eating chocolate and gabbing like teenagers
       once again, free from men, worries, and cold. Come grow 
       old in paradise, together, as sisters. Who could say no? 
       Now in their sixties, the friends have all but resigned 
       themselves to the cards they've been dealt. There's Sina, 
       a single mom with financial woes; gentle Maya who feels 
       the world slipping away from her; Ingrid, the perennial 
       loner; Lisbeth, a woman with a seemingly picture-perfect 
       life; and then Kat, who is recently widowed. As they 
       adjust to their new lives together, the friends are 
       watched over by Ateca, Kat's longtime housekeeper, who 
       oftentimes knows the women better than they know 
       themselves and recognizes them for what they are: like "a 
       necklace made of shells: from the same beach but all of 
       them different." Surrounded by an azure-blue ocean, cocoa 
       trees, and a local culture that is fascinatingly, joyfully
       alien, the friends find a new purpose in starting a 
       business making chocolate: bittersweet, succulent pieces 
       of happiness."--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Older women|zFiji|vFiction. 
650  0 Female friendship|vFiction. 
651  0 Fiji|vFiction. 
655  7 Humorous fiction.|2gsafd 
730 0  Biter av lykke.|lEnglish. 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aOstby, Anne, 1958-
       |tPieces of happiness|dLondon : Doubleday, an imprint of 
       Transworld Publishers, 2017|z9780857525307