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"Razor-sharp, deadpan observations, and dazzlng prose." San Francisco Chronicle
Penguin
May 2010
On Sale: May 13, 2010
Featuring: Isolde Brilliant
336 pages
ISBN: 1594487553
EAN: 9781594487552
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
From the bestselling author of High Maintenance
comes a witty, heartfelt comic novel about marriage,
motherhood, and discovering that the life you have is
exactly the one you want. Isolde Brilliant used
to have a life she recognized. She was working in finance,
she had a devoted, if neurotic, husband, and a perfectly
acceptable apartment in downtown Manhattan. But once Izzy's
wish to become a mother finally comes true, she is laid off
from her job, and her old world falls by the wayside.
Although she's surprised with motherhood's hidden
pleasures-jaunts to the park, bickering with other mothers,
and the sense of accomplishment she feels in having made it
through her son's first year-her marriage is on shaky ground
and she feels lost. She just can't quite get a grip on what
to do now that she has all-or most-of the things she's ever
wanted. As Izzy ponders her next move, her best
friend announces that she is leaving her husband. Balancing
the demands of marriage and motherhood for seven years has
made her feel like a nag, a shrew, a...you-know-what, and
she's determined that the only way out is too leave. Izzy
tries to avoid a similar fate, but as new challenges and
temptations arise for her, she begins to wonder if there
might be some inescapable grain of truth in her friend's
outlandish theory. Full of the poignancy and hilarity
that readers have come to expect from Jennifer Belle, The
Seven Year Bitch is a smart and provocative novel about
learning how to love what you have, and finding out that
it's both the hardest thing you've ever done and not so hard
after all.
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