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ONCE UPON A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN By: Patrick Sanchez
Kensington
August 2007
On Sale: August 1, 2007
Featuring: Jennifer Costas
352 pages ISBN: 0758210027 EAN: 9780758210029 Paperback
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Contemporary Chick Lit
Patrick Sanchez delivers a hilarious, moving, and allβtooβtrue snapshot of a generation of women stretched between extremes, frazzled by time and tides, and determined to make everything work without losing themselves in the process. Jennifer Costas has her hands full. She's the single mother of a fiveβyearβold son; her fullβtime job is only getting busier; her forceβofβnature college roommate recently showed up on her doorstep in need of a place to stay. indefinitely; her increasingly cranky "oldβworld" mother answers the phone every morning with, "I'm not dead," and her newly outβofβtheβcloset exβhusband is constantly late with his child support payments while he tries to get his new restaurant, Gonads (think gay Hooters) off the ground. She feels guilty about not making "stayβatβhome mom cookies" and wary about tipβtoeing into the dating scene carrying thirtyβsix years' worth of baggage. Having it all means juggling it all, and Jennifer's trying desperately not to drop anything. But just when Jennifer thinks she's operating at maximum capacity, her mother's health begins to fail. Faced with taking care of her mother in addition to her son, keeping her career on track, and maintaining some semblance of a social life, Jennifer's in for the ride of her lifeβone that will challenge her sense of humor, her sense of self, and her sense of sanity.
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