ISBN: 9781647420147
Editorial: She Writes Press
Autor: Rasmussen, Leslie A.
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 272
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: “Smart and funny, After Happily Ever After is an exciting debut.” —Laura Dave, international best-selling author of The Last Thing He Told MeMaggie Dolan finds herself at forty-five at a crossroads in her life. Once an executive at a top publishing house, she’s chosen to be a stay-at-home mom for the last seventeen years. But now with her daughter, Gia, soon leaving for college, and her husband, Jim, distracted and disconnected and with secrets he hasn’t shared, Maggie decides it’s time to get back into the world to figure out what to do with the rest of her life. As she steps out into this exciting and sometimes scary journey of discovering who she is now, she has to deal with a narcissistic mother, a brother who doesn’t like her, and most damaging of all, the news that her father, the one man who’s been her rock all her life, is deteriorating both physically and mentally. When all these things get on top of her, Maggie is led in a direction that could destroy what she’s built and makes her question the choices she’s made. She’s torn between the life she’s always known and something more exciting that she never expected.After Happily Ever After deals with love, marriage, family, the empty nest, aging parents, and what happens when they all come crashing down at the same time.Review2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Honorable Mention in Commercial Fiction2022 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite in Contemporary Novel2022 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Winner in General Fiction/Novel2022 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Award Winner in General Fiction/Novel2022 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite in Contemporary NovelOne of Popsugar's Best Books of 20212021 Top Shelf Awards Runner Up in Fiction (Women’s)2021 Literary Titan Book Awards Silver Winner2021 Firebird Award Winner in multiple categories, including Contemporary Novel and Marriage2021 Book Excellence Awards Finalist in Marriage2021 International Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: Women's Fiction2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: Realistic2021 Hollywood Book Awards Honorable Mention in General Fiction2021 NYC Big Book Awards Winner in Marriage2021 NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite in New Fiction (First-time published)2021 IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Fiction: Women’s Fiction“Rasmussen is a freelance journalist and former TV sitcom writer and the latter is evident in the novel’s sharp, funny dialogue and Maggie’s wry, observational narration.”—Kirkus Reviews“Leslie A. Rasmussen has written a fiction story that most women can relate to in one way or another with compassion and love. After Happily Ever After is a wonderful read that will not disappoint. I highly recommend After Happily Ever After to women both young and old.”—Readers' Favorite, five stars“A Connecticut housewife traverses middle age with self-deprecating wit and aplomb in Leslie Rassmussen’s novel After Happily Ever After.”—Foreword Reviews“Leslie A. Rasmussen’s After Happily Ever After gives voice to many women in the ‘sandwich generation’—and the voice is a funny one.”—Leslie Lehr, prize-winning author of A Boob’s Life and What a Mother Knows“With warm tenderness, peppered with humor throughout, Leslie A. Rasmussen has written a novel of fresh, relatable characters, easy to root for and easy to know. Anyone juggling the lives of loved ones while navigating their own will recognize the protagonist as she struggles to find the missing parts of a so-called life that turns out to be…herself.”—Sande Boritz Berger, author of Split LevelandThe Sweetness“In Leslie A. Rasmussen’s debut novel, a woman finds herself reanalyzing her life and her marriage when her daughter is heading off to college. Smart and funny, After Happily Ever After is an exciting debut.”—Laura Dave, international best-selling author of Eight Hundred Grapes“After Happily Ever Afteris a road map for every empty nester
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