Dish and Tell: Life, Love, and Secrets - Hardcover

San Pedro, Patricia; San Roman, Annie; Fuller, Tammi Leader; Rosenberg, Sara; Sacasa, Lydia; Soler-Martinez, Mercedes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060777710 ISBN 13: 9780060777715

Publisher: William Morrow, 2005

Synopsis

We see you, stealing a glance at these
pages during your lunch break, in between
errands while the world is calling on your
cell phone and you pretend not to hear.
We understand because we’re just like you.

Six dynamic everyday divas, the self-proclaimed Miami Bombshells, gather every few weeks to kick off their power pumps, drink wine, gorge themselves on chocolate, and dish about the costs of having it all (or not): husbands or lovers, children, money, power, spirituality, and successful, rewarding careers.

During these sessions -- guiltily crammed in between business trips, charity events, and their children's activities -- they drop all pretenses and let fly their most personal bombshells, which eventually landed on the pages of this book. All of the stories are true. Some are signed, others are written anonymously, to protect the innocent (and the guilty).

Long ago, the Miami Bombshells refused to accept lives of quiet desperation, deciding instead to embrace their imperfections and put their own needs at the top of their to-do lists. In doing so, they redefine what it means to be a modern-day bombshell ... it's more about being courageous than curvaceous.

These six brave women divulge their vulnerabilities and most intimate secrets by hanging their dirty laundry on this literary clothesline. They describe coping with depression when expected to be the life of the party, why they fell into dubious relationships, how they dealt with rape, panic attacks, romantic email blunders, hair loss, the corporate vs. family juggling act, and nanny nightmares.

All women, no matter how different, go through similar experiences in life, and just knowing that is sometimes enough to make it better.Dish & Tell proves that reality is stranger (and much more interesting) than fiction.

About this title

About the Author:

The "Miami Bombshells" are:

Patricia San Pedro: the original bombshell, who brought the other 5 together. She runs a very successful PR firm in Miami.

Annie San Roman: a school psychologist who works with troubled teens and has turned around many a violent and hopeless kid. Also a devoted wife and mother.

Tammi Leader Fuller: is a producer for NBC's "The Today Show", Fox TV, "Extra", "America's Most Wanted" and others.

Lydia Sacasa: successful banker who works seventy hour weeks and is obsessed with cooking, designer clothes and being a good mother to her three children...even if that means staying up till 6 a.m. to make homemade costumes for the school play!

Sara Rosenberg: this power player travels the world speaking to publishing groups about innovation and change.

Mercedes Soler: one of the most influential Latina newscasters, more recognizable among Hispanics in the U.S. than Oprah. She's a five time Emmy award winning newscaster for Univision.

From Publishers Weekly:

The Miami Bombshells, six 40-something females from Florida, offer further evidence of the national epidemic of people assuming the world is waiting for their life stories; having come together to spill their secrets to one another, the Bombshells are now spilling them in public. Under such chapter headings as "Who Am I?" and "To Love, Honor, and Oy Vey," this group—which includes high-powered executives, a TV producer, an Emmy-winning broadcaster and a school social worker—shares personal essays about marriage woes, mommy guilt, medical problems, depression and spirituality. When an issue is considered too personal—a violent date rape, an extramarital affair, a husband's mental illness—the essay is credited to "Bombshell." Some of the stories are compelling, but too often the details are banal or pocked with clichés. And while the Bombshells claim, "we're just like you," not too many people can call Katie Couric an old friend or complain of being "spoiled rotten" with "a housekeeper who irons my pajamas." The Bombshells want to share the value of developing friendship circles. They may provide a prod for some; those already clued in can skip this and simply spend some quality time with their own gang. (June)
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060777710
• ISBN 13: 9780060777715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280