Synopses & Reviews
Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention.
Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation.
What would you do, if you were going to break out and away? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you want-and then some? Start a dating service for people over fifty to reclaim the razzle-dazzle in your life or your marriage? Seek comfort in the face of aging, look for love in the midst of loss, find friendship in the most surprising of places?
Imagine that the people in these wonderful stories who do all of these things and more are asking you: What would you do, if nobody was looking?
Review
"Berg's writing is so gentle, her people so real, that even these sad stories generate warmth. Tales that highlight the bright sparks in everyday experience." Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis
The bestselling author of We Are All Welcome Here, The Year of Pleasures, and Open House returns with exhilarating stories of women breaking free from conventions.
About the Author
Elizabeth Berg is the
New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including
Dream When You're Feeling Blue, We Are All Welcome Here, The Year of Pleasures, The Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and
Open House, which was an Oprahs Book Club selection in 2000.
Durable Goods and
Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and
Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY Award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work,
Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.
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