Description:
Sometimes, we know the least about those we love the most. When Virginia DeLuca's sixty-year-old husband walked out saying he wanted babies, everyone had a theory. He already knocked someone up. Nervous breakdown. Brain tumor.
Brief description: Virginia Deluca is a writer and psychotherapist. She is the author of the award winning novel, As If Women Mattered. Her essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, The Writer, and The Huffington Post. She lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.
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**#1 Amazon Bestseller**
"DeLuca's memoir blends brilliance, raw emotion, humor, and extraordinary insight...providing both page-turning 'gotta know' and deeply rewarding conclusions."-Randy Susan Meyers, international bestselling author of The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone
"DeLuca's memoir is gripping and emotionally stirring as it weaves together grief, laughter, outrage, and redemption. There are no simple villains and victims here, but full people."-Orna Guralnik, psychologist, psychoanalyst, and star of hit Showtime series Couples Therapy
"Reading Ginny Deluca is like sitting across from your funniest, wisest friend over coffee. Her story of late life love and loss is layered and rich, and endlessly interesting."-Alysia Abbot, author of the acclaimed memoir Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
"This intimate, vulnerable memoir is an absolute pleasure to read, by turns hilarious, frank, and
full of wisdom, making it difficult to put down."-Maya Shanbhag Lang, author of acclaimed memoir What We Carry
"I could not put this book down. Buy one for yourself, and another one for your best friend."-Sarah Ruhl, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, playwright, and author of the memoir Smile: The Story of a Face
"A therapist's hilarious, yet wise perspective and must-read for anyone navigating betrayal." -Karen Kirsten, internationally bestselling author of Irena's Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival
"It's strangely heartwarming to realize that even sexagenarians can be this chaotic."-Vulture, New York Magazine