Cherry baby / Rainbow Rowell.

By:

Rowell, Rainbow

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : William Morrow & Company, 2026Description: 416 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780063380264

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Romance fiction.

DDC classification:

813/.6 23

LOC classification:

PS3618.O8755 C44 2026

Summary: "Everybody knows that Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie . . . Almost nobody knows that he isn't coming home. Tom is the creator of Thursday--a semi-autobiographical webcomic that's become an international phenomenon. Semi-autobiographical. That means there's a character in this movie based on Cherry . . . "Baby." Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby. Cherry never wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page--let alone on the big screen. But there's no getting away from it. Baby looks so much like Cherry that strangers recognize her at the grocery store. While her soon-to-be ex-husband is in Los Angeles getting rich and famous and being the internet's latest boyfriend, Cherry is stuck in Omaha taking care of the dog he always wanted and the house they were going to raise a family in . . . and wondering who she's supposed to be without him. Cherry had promised to love Tom through thick and thin. She'd meant it. One night, Cherry decides to leave all her problems, including Tom's overgrown puppy, at home. She ventures out to see her favorite band play her favorite album . . . and someone recognizes her from across the room. Russ Sutton knew Cherry when she was a young art student with a fondness for pin-up dresses and patent leather heels. Before Tom. Russ knows Cherry. He likes Cherry. And best of all . . . he's never heard of Thursday."--Publisher description.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC ROWELL	On hold		36748002647198	1

Total holds: 1

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Sexy, messy, funny and raw." -- The New York Times

#1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell returns with a breathtakingly honest novel about a woman who lost everything -- and isn't sure she wants it back.

Everybody knows that Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie . . .

Almost nobody knows that he isn't coming home.

Tom is the creator of Thursday --a semi-autobiographical webcomic that's become an international phenomenon.

Semi-autobiographical . That means there's a character in this movie based on Cherry . . . "Baby."

Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby.

Cherry never wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page--let alone on the big screen. But there's no getting away from it. Baby looks so much like Cherry that strangers recognize her at the grocery store.

While her soon-to-be ex-husband is in Los Angeles getting rich and famous and being the internet's latest boyfriend, Cherry is stuck in Omaha taking care of the dog he always wanted and the house they were going to raise a family in . . . and wondering who she's supposed to be without him.

Cherry had promised to love Tom through thick and thin.

She'd meant it.

One night, Cherry decides to leave all her problems, including Tom's overgrown puppy, at home. She ventures out to see her favorite band play her favorite album . . . and someone recognizes her from across the room.

Russ Sutton knew Cherry when she was a young art student with a fondness for pin-up dresses and patent leather heels. Before Tom.

Russ knows Cherry. He likes Cherry.

And best of all . . . he's never heard of Thursday .

Tender, funny, and utterly human, Cherry Baby is Rainbow Rowell's richest, most surprising-- sexiest --novel yet.

"Everybody knows that Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie . . . Almost nobody knows that he isn't coming home. Tom is the creator of Thursday--a semi-autobiographical webcomic that's become an international phenomenon. Semi-autobiographical. That means there's a character in this movie based on Cherry . . . "Baby." Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby. Cherry never wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page--let alone on the big screen. But there's no getting away from it. Baby looks so much like Cherry that strangers recognize her at the grocery store. While her soon-to-be ex-husband is in Los Angeles getting rich and famous and being the internet's latest boyfriend, Cherry is stuck in Omaha taking care of the dog he always wanted and the house they were going to raise a family in . . . and wondering who she's supposed to be without him. Cherry had promised to love Tom through thick and thin. She'd meant it. One night, Cherry decides to leave all her problems, including Tom's overgrown puppy, at home. She ventures out to see her favorite band play her favorite album . . . and someone recognizes her from across the room. Russ Sutton knew Cherry when she was a young art student with a fondness for pin-up dresses and patent leather heels. Before Tom. Russ knows Cherry. He likes Cherry. And best of all . . . he's never heard of Thursday."--Publisher description.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Library Journal Review

Cherry feels depressed and alone in Omaha. Everyone knows that her husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie. Tom's semi-biographical web comic-turned-bestselling sensation, Thursday, is the most anticipated movie of the year. What almost no one else knows is that Tom is not coming back. Distance and betrayal have ruined the relationship, and now all Cherry has left is the giant but lovable dog she never wanted and the empty house where they planned to raise their future family. Cherry is particularly annoyed that her husband's most recognizable character is based on her: "Baby" a memorable, captivating plus-sized woman. Cherry never wanted to see herself depicted on the page or the big screen or be recognizable to strangers everywhere. One night, Cherry goes to see her favorite band and meets her college crush. He seems to be a good pick as Cherry's rebound, but when he realizes the impact Thursday has on her life, it might be too much for him. VERDICT Rowell (Slow Dance) explores body image, second chances, and rebuilding one's life after heartbreak. A must-read for those who enjoy the work of Emily Henry, Ashley Poston, and Katherine Center.--Linsey Milillo

Publishers Weekly Review

Rowell (Slow Dance) delivers a big-hearted if imperfect second-chance love story. Recently separated from Tom, her husband of eight years in Omaha, Neb., Cherry feels a spark when she runs into her college crush, Russ. Unlike back then, this time the attraction is mutual, and the two strike up a fast-moving romance. Though she appears to cheerfully accept being fat ("She could say it out loud. She didn't hide from it"), Cherry suffers from persistent self-doubts, especially as she embarks on this new relationship. Meanwhile, Tom has been in Los Angeles helping produce a feature film based on his webcomic about a Cherry lookalike named Baby. When Tom returns to Omaha to pack up his things, Cherry's forced to confront her lingering heartbreak. Rowell punctuates her appealing conversational style with parenthetical asides on such subjects as Cherry's favorite Midwestern foods, while also thoughtfully exploring internalized fatphobia and the notion of self-acceptance in the age of GLP-1 weight loss drugs. Unfortunately, the characters' emotions and motivations remain unclear, especially Russ's, and a late flashback that finally explains the circumstances of Cherry and Tom's breakup feels both confusing and anticlimactic. This is a mixed bag. Agent: Christopher Schelling, Selectric Artists. (Apr.)

Kirkus Book Review

A second-chance romance from the author ofSlow Dance (2024) and the Simon Snow Trilogy. Cherry is fat. There are other things to know about Cherry, but this fact is essential to how she sees herself and--she knows--essential to how other people see her. And now that her husband's hugely popular webcomic is a movie, she not only has to endure people confusing her with the character that's based on her, but also the knowledge that the actor playing this character is wearing a fat suit. This pain is exacerbated by the fact that her marriage is over. It's at this rock-bottom moment that her college crush reenters her life…This is a book about being fat, and Rowell does a great job of depicting what internalized fatphobia looks like. "Cherry was so used to thinking about being fat, she hardly even noticed that she was doing it. She was so used to thinking about being fat, she neverthought about it." Observations like this will resonate with a lot of readers, as will Cherry's complicated feelings about weight-loss drugs. This is also a romance and, as a romance, it's kind of all over the place. It's totally realistic for Cherry to wonder if Russ--the guy from college--never pursued her because of her weight. This is a conflict that feels true. What's less believable is the way he reacts when he sees a trailer for Cherry's husband's movie. It's clear that he didn't get that this movie was going to be a blockbuster. In short, Russ freaks out, and it's not at all clear why. As for Cherry's husband, the way she feels about him at the beginning of the book is totally disconnected from the way she feels about him in the novel's latter half. It's normal to have complicated feelings about the end of a marriage, of course, but there's no emotional throughline to help the reader understand why Cherry's feelings change so dramatically. Rowell delivers the requisite happily-ever-after, but it doesn't quite satisfy. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.