Alice Pearse thought she would live happily ever after. Then she realized she was in the wrong story?
Simon & Schuster
September 2015
On Sale: August 25, 2015
Featuring: Alice Pearse
384 pages ISBN: 1501105434 EAN: 9781501105432 Kindle: B00PDXSESE Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Fans of I Don’t Know How She Does It and Where’d
You Go, Bernadette? will cheer at this “fresh, funny
take on the age-old struggle to have it all” (People)
about what happens when a wife and mother of three leaps at
the chance to fulfill her professional destiny—only to learn
every opportunity comes at a price.
In A Window
Opens, beloved books editor at Glamour magazine
Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively
honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine
for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age.
Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones,
Alice plays many roles (which she never refers to as
“wearing many hats” and wishes you wouldn’t, either). She is
a mostly-happily married mother of three, an attentive
daughter, an ambivalent dog-owner, a part-time editor, a
loyal neighbor and a Zen commuter. She is not: a cook, a
craftswoman, a decorator, an active PTA member, a natural
caretaker or the breadwinner. But when her husband makes a
radical career change, Alice is ready to lean in—and she
knows exactly how lucky she is to land a job at Scroll, a
hip young start-up which promises to be the future of
reading, with its chain of chic literary lounges and
dedication to beloved classics. The Holy Grail of working
mothers―an intellectually satisfying job and a happy
personal life―seems suddenly within reach.
Despite
the disapproval of her best friend, who owns the local
bookstore, Alice is proud of her new “balancing act” (which
is more like a three-ring circus) until her dad gets sick,
her marriage flounders, her babysitter gets fed up, her kids
start to grow up and her work takes an unexpected turn.
Readers will cheer as Alice realizes the question is not
whether it’s possible to have it all, but what does
she―Alice Pearse―really want?
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