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The Secret Currency of Love
Hilary Black
The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships
William Morrow
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0061560960
EAN: 9780061560965
Hardcover
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Money. It affects us all, so why is it so difficult to
discuss? Even as daily headlines broadcast ever more
alarming news about the fate of the American economy, few
people are willing to acknowledge the enormous impact that
personal finance has on their private affairs. Until now. In this compelling anthology of original essays, some of the
country's most respected women writers reveal their deepest
feelings about money and how it affects their most intimate
relationships—with parents, children, spouses, siblings, and
ultimately with themselves. They examine the childhood
experiences that set up lifelong, and sometimes
self-destructive, financial habits. And they divulge how all
the intangibles—romance, status, power, security—become
tangled up in their financial lives. The essays in these pages are written from many different
perspectives: a single woman trying to reconcile feminism
with a secret desire to be supported by a man; a wife with
radically different spending habits from her husband's; a
divorcée who has become the family's chief breadwinner; a
single mother struggling to make ends meet. They also
explore complicated social issues. Sheri Holman (The Dress
Lodger) reveals how she fell in love with a homeless drug
addict. Leslie Bennetts (The Feminine Mistake) weighs the
social and emotional costs of giving her children a
private-school education among the super-rich. Bliss Broyard
(One Drop) ruminates on the intricacies of maintaining
friendships with wealthier friends. And Amy Cohen (The Late
Bloomer's Revolution) considers the price—financial and
otherwise—of having a child on her own. Witty, nuanced, and startlingly intimate, The Secret
Currency of Love offers a transformative look at the
delicate nature of love and money. This riveting collection
will spark debate by inspiring readers to reexamine their
own emotional connection to their finances. As Americans
struggle to make rational choices in a frightening economy,
these brave, revealing essays by some of today's most
esteemed writers provide insight into how a modern
generation of women is defining itself in the new social
economy.
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