Allison Weiss got her happy endingโa handsome husband, adorable daughter, a job she loves, and the big house in the suburbs. But while waiting in the pediatricianโs office, she opens a magazine to a quiz about addiction and starts to wonderโฆIs a Percocet at the end of the day really different from a glass of wine? Is it such a bad thing to pop a Vicodin after a brutal Jump & Pump classโฆor if your husband ignores you?
The pills help her manage the realities of her good-looking life: that her husband is distant, that her daughter is acting out, that her fatherโs Alzheimerโs is worsening and her mother is barely managing to cope. She tells herself that they let her make it through her daysโฆbut what if her increasing drug use, a habit thatโs becoming expensive and hard to hide, is turning into her biggest problem of all?
With a sparkling comedic touch and a cast of unforgettable characters, this remarkable story of a womanโs slide into addiction and struggle to find her way back up again is Jennifer Weinerโs most masterful work yet.
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