by Ruth Pennebaker
Just released: January 2011
At once a tender and whip-smart read, Women on the Verge depicts a mother, daughter, and grandmother financially forced to live together under one roof:
Joanie is a recently-divorced fiftysomething, shakily re-entering the work force;
Her daughter Caroline is an angry teen in high school, who believes the best way to express herself is with hot pink hair (and “specially” prepared brownies);
Ivy is Joanie’s 78-year-old mother, who has recently taken up shoplifting.
And to top things off, Richard, Joanie's ex-husband, has just announced that his much younger girlfriend is pregnant.
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Sound like a fun one???
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Offer ends: April 3, 2011
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Sounds great! I liked that the author described it as a horror story.
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Living with three generations of women can be a horror story. I remember when my grandmother came to live with my mother, brothers and myself. She was suffering from dementia, my mother from depression and we had just moved so I didn't have any friends yet. I was an extreme example of a wallflower. So we had our own kind of horror.
ReplyDeleteWithout humor, how can you get through it?
Please enter me in this contest for this book.
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This looks like a really great story, a feel good one. I need one of those. It looks like the author really enjoyed writing this one. She had a fun zeal about her. Thanks for the offer!
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This looks intriguing! I should love to try it.
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It's totally like chaotic mess over there but I really think the book sounds amazing. Funny as well.
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I was intrigued from the moment I heard the name of this book! I'd love a chance into this giveaway thanks.
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I loved the cover and wanted the book, but the video makes the book even more appealing!
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This sounds really cool! Three generations of women living under one roof is bound to be entertaining.
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I love the sound of this book! Please enter me!
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Heh, sounds like an interesting read.
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This books sounds like one of those that most women can relate too. Estpecially the "horror" parts. And how you can live with someone and not have a clue what they are going through. Thanks for a chance to win this book.
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I enjoy books about mother-daughter relationships b/c I'm a daughter and I have one of my own. A few things rang true in the video:
ReplyDelete. Mother-daughter relationships are complicated yet fascinating.
. You can live eith someone and yet know absolutely nothing about them and their life b/c you are so absorbed in yours.
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Book sounds amazing! The three women are very interesting characters!
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I love how in-depth she decribes the characters! It sounds like a good book!
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Being both a daughter and the mother of a daughter this book sounds fascinating.
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Sounds like a funny 'horror' story! LOL Family relationships are always so complicated and interesting, so this book sounds ike a winner.
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This sounds fascinating!
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i love the teaser! now im really really hoping to win this so i can read it! Thanks :)
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I enjoyed the teaser, can't wait to read the book.
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I would love to read this !
ReplyDeleteSeems emotional intense; and Ruth is tottaly right about : " You can live with someone , but you have no ideea what they are going thru.." ..
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I would love to read Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough. The video was intriguing. Please enter me in this giveaway!
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