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Struggling with an unsatisfying job, her husband's flirtations with a younger co-worker, and her teenage son's estrangement, Julia remembers her first love and impulsively participates in a tryst during a friend's wedding, and when she discovers that she is pregnant, she is uncertain of the baby's paternity. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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About the Author
This is Mary Guterson's first novel.
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"So, I figured, what the hell." That's Julia's response to just about anything, including marriage, pregnancy and cheating on her husband—not necessarily in that order. In this wry, brutally honest debut novel, Guterson slashes into the happy homilies of chick lit, revealing the underside of happily ever after. Part-time middle-school teacher Julia is nearing 40 and married to more-or-less satisfactory Jim, a Seattle sports writer, with whom she has a 15-year-old son, Chad. For years, she's been pining away for her first love, Ray, and when she sees him at a wedding—"looking for all the world like a sun-drenched god"—she promptly follows him into the bathroom. Soon she's pregnant, and she can't be sure whether the father is Jim or Ray. Meanwhile, clueless Jim is distracted by a painfully obvious crush on his young, beautiful officemate Patricia, which prevents him from taking the moral high ground. What distinguishes this book from its genre counterparts is author Guterson's unabashed willingness to let Julia voice the sort of thoughts that are publicly eschewed, and these glimpses into the mind of her tell-it-like-it-is narrator make for some liberating, laugh-out– loud passages. There are also moments of heartbreak and kindness—particularly in Julia's relationship with Chad—which are all the more potent for their understatement.
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- PublisherPutnam Adult
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 039915230X
- ISBN 13 9780399152306
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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