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How a Happily Married Woman Became a Widow Looking for Love in the Wilds of Suburbia
Shaye Areheart Books
November 2007
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Featuring: Isabel
256 pages
ISBN: 0307236951
EAN: 9780307236951
Hardcover
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Fiction | Contemporary Women's Fiction
Being short with big boobs means living life off-balance.
Isabel knows this all too well; at five-feet-nothing
with a
tendency to tip over in heels, she’s struggled for
twenty-five years to make clothes, careers, and boyfriends
fit.
Enter Michael. Divorced father, recovering
alcoholic, and fifteen years her senior—he was the
last guy
she thought would make the cut. But when he proposed over a
pastrami sandwich in a New York City deli on the anniversary
of their first date, Isabel knew, improbably, that he
was the
one.
Fifteen mostly happy years and two kids later,
Isabel walks into her living room to discover her husband
dead on the floor, leaving her a widow at forty-one. At
Michael’s funeral, a guest solemnly informs her that the
official mourning period for a Jewish widow is thirty
days.
At that moment, Isabel can’t imagine a time when she will
stop grieving. Not helping the process is this: as a single
mom living in the very married suburbs, for the first
time in
fifteen years Isabel once again just doesn’t fit
in.
It takes her younger daughter’s request for a new
daddy to set Isabel on a journey through online dating,
shifty matchmakers, and painfully orchestrated singles
dinners. But after endless dates and a story on page three
of the Daily News, Isabel begins to realize that another man
may not be the answer and, surprisingly, that’s when things
begin to change for the better. . . .
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