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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, sheβs struggled for twenty-five years to make clothes, careers, and boyfriends fit.
Enter Michael. Divorced father, recovering alcoholic, and fifteen years her seniorβhe 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 Michaelβs funeral, a guest solemnly informs her that the official mourning period for a Jewish widow is thirty days. At that moment, Isabel canβt 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 doesnβt fit in.
It takes her younger daughterβs 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, thatβs when things begin to change for the better. . . .
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