Synopses & Reviews
There are 161 million women in America today, and our friendships are still as primary and universal as back when Ruth and Naomi, Elizabeth and Susan B., Lucy and Ethel, and Thelma and Louise made history. And that's what makes being dumped by a woman friend so excruciating: you expect romantic relationships to break up eventually--but you don't expect it from your friendships. And when it happens, you feel as though there should be an Adele song for you--but there isn't. Dumped: Women Unfriending Women fills that void, exploring the universal experience of being discarded by those from whom you expected more. The essays in Dumped aren't stories of friendship dying a mutually agreed upon death, or of falling out of touch and reconnecting years later to find you haven't missed a beat. These are stories by established and emerging authors who, like you, may have found themselves erased, without context. These, like your own, are stories that stay with you, maybe for a lifetime.
Review
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Dumped touches a nerve from page one. It touches on a subject that all women know too well, yet is complicated and painful to articulate: the mourning, and sometimes redemption, that comes from being dumped by a sister-like friend. For every woman who has ever drowned her sorrows in a pint of ice cream over the loss of a close friend--or simply needs to know she is not alone--this book is for her."
—Elisa Batista, publisher of MotherTalkers.com, a Daily Kos community
"This remarkable collection provides an exhilarating range of voices exploring what happens when female friendships falter. Wise, compassionate, and smart, each of these essays is a revelation. Give your best friend a copy along with a warm, thankful hug."
—Dinty W. Moore, author of The Mindful Writer
Synopsis
Candid, relatable stories by established and emerging women writers about being discarded by someone from whom they expected more: a close female friend.
Synopsis
Candid, relatable stories by established and emerging women writers about being discarded by someone from whom they expected more: a close female friend. There are 161 million women in America today, and our friendships are still as primary and universal as back when Ruth and Naomi, Elizabeth and Susan B., and Thelma and Louise made history. When a romantic relationship breaks up, no problem--there's an Adele song for that. Health concerns; problems in school; issues at the workplace? We've got our chums to prop us up. Until we don't. When our most sustaining relationships dissolve--those with the women friends in our lives--there's never been the fanfare that accompanies the loss of other relationships society deems "more important." Until now. In Dumped: Stories of Women Unfriending Women, twenty-five established and emerging writers--including Jacquelyn Mitchard, Ann Hood, Carrie Kabak, Jessica Handler, Elizabeth Searle, Alexis Paige, and editor Nina Gaby--explore the fragile, sometimes humorous, and often unfathomable nature of lost friendship. These, like your own, are stories that stay with you--maybe for a lifetime.
Synopsis
• Working with literary publicity firm JKS Communications • Paid placement and promotion through NetGalley, Foreword, PW, and Kirkus • Publicist-assisted promotion through book groups • Holding off-site, affiliated reading during AWP with a number of essay contributors who will be in attendance (She Writes Press will be a vendor at the event) • Pitching talks at high schools, mental health centers, addiction treatment/rehab centers involving the topics of abandonment/ betrayal/managing reactions. Targeting Jezebel, Rumpus, Skirt, and on some of the more traditional women's magazine sites for feature pieces • Author readings at Barnes and Noble and independent bookstores (Bear Pond, Phoenix Books, etc.) in author's home state of Vermont • Author has a website and Wordpress blog with a dedicated page for Dumped • Author active on Facebook, Goodreads, and LinkedIn, and will grow audience on Twitter
About the Author
Nina Gaby is a writer, visual artist and psychiatric nurse practitioner whose essays can be found in collections by Creative Non Fiction, Seal Press, Wising-Up Press, and several periodicals. Her fiction has been published in Lilith Magazine and in two short-story collections by Paper Journey Press.