Spotlight & Giveaway: Wife 22
Reading Lark has been given the opportunity to spotlight Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon. We are also excited to be able to offer up TWO copies of the book for two of our lucky readers to win.
ABOUT THE BOOK
For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.
When Alice Buckle, who has been married to William for nearly twenty years, receives a survey in her e-mail from the Netherfield Center for the Study of Marital Happiness, she is in the doldrums. She loves her husband but they've grown distant, she is bored with her job, and her adolescent children need her less now. And she has reached the age at which her mother died. So as she idly begins answering the questions, she finds herself baring her soul in an anonymous survey she never even intended to respond to. As she struggles, she realizes it has been years since anyone asked deep, serious questions of her, and really listened to her answers. Soon her entire life as she knows it is called into question.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Melanie Gideon is the author of the memoir The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After, an NPR and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2009, and aNew York Times bestseller, as well as three young adult novels. Her novel, Wife 22 (to be published in 30 countries and translated into 26 languages and currently in development with Working Title Films) is forthcoming from Ballantine in May 2012. She has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, More, Shape, Marie Claire, the London Times, the Daily Mail and other publications. She was born and raised in Rhode Island and now lives in the Bay Area with her husband and son. Wife 22 is her first novel for adults.
I've added it to my reading list.
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I have seen this book on a couple of different blogs that I follow and I am very interested in reading this. It's like nothing I have ever heard before.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great giveaway!
Just a great idea for a book in my opinion. A wonderful chance for character development and self-searching. I can't wait to read it.
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This book looks so good! Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time seeing this book. It looks like one of those deep books that you sit and dig into.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a good read. This is the first time I've heard of this book or author.
ReplyDeleteI think the title alone is unique. I've never heard of a book with that title before and the story I've never heard of anything like that. I think this would be a fresh approach to a different kind of story.
ReplyDeleteThe title conjures images of polygamy, but this is very much a novel of modern monogamy. Along with traditional narration, the story unfolds in a series of Facebook and Twitter updates, text messages, e-mails, Google searches, and even playwriting scenes. This can be disorienting at times, but it effectively mimics the minute-by-minute, need-to-know lifestyle of the typical plugged-in American. For an atypical, mostly unplugged American like me, this was quite a revelation.
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