Advanced Reader’s Copy in very good condition.
“Grief obliterates the present, forcing you to relive the past and dread the future.”
Judy never intended to start wearing the dog, but when she stumbled across her son Teddy’s old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So the dog went into the sling. Judy felt connected to another living being, and she’s repeated the process every day since.
Life hasn’t gone according to Judy’s plan. Her career as a children’s book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive. Teddy, now a teenager, treats her with some combination of mortification and indifference. Her best friend is dying and her husband, Gary, has become a pot-addled professional “snackologist” who she can’t afford to divorce. On top of it all, she has a painfully ironic job writing articles for a self-help website—a poor fit for someone seemingly incapable of helping herself.
Wickedly funny and surprisingly tender, Separation Anxiety offers a frank portrait of middle-aged limbo, examining the ebb and flow of life’s most important relationships. Tapping into the insecurities and anxieties that most of us keep under wraps, and with a voice that is at once gleefully irreverent and genuinely touching, Laura Zigman has created a novel for anyone taking fumbling steps toward happiness.
Read Alikes for Separation Anxiety: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman; Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony; Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean
Advanced Reader’s Copy in very good condition.
“Grief obliterates the present, forcing you to relive the past and dread the future.”
Judy never intended to start wearing the dog, but when she stumbled across her son Teddy’s old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So the dog went into the sling. Judy felt connected to another living being, and she’s repeated the process every day since.
Life hasn’t gone according to Judy’s plan. Her career as a children’s book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive. Teddy, now a teenager, treats her with some combination of mortification and indifference. Her best friend is dying and her husband, Gary, has become a pot-addled professional “snackologist” who she can’t afford to divorce. On top of it all, she has a painfully ironic job writing articles for a self-help website—a poor fit for someone seemingly incapable of helping herself.
Wickedly funny and surprisingly tender, Separation Anxiety offers a frank portrait of middle-aged limbo, examining the ebb and flow of life’s most important relationships. Tapping into the insecurities and anxieties that most of us keep under wraps, and with a voice that is at once gleefully irreverent and genuinely touching, Laura Zigman has created a novel for anyone taking fumbling steps toward happiness.
Read Alikes for Separation Anxiety: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman; Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony; Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean
ISBN 978-0-06-290907-7
Laura Zigman
2020
