Happens Every Day
An All-Too-True Story
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Narrated by:
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Isabel Gillies
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Written by:
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Isabel Gillies
About this listen
Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons.
When Josiah took a teaching job at a Midwestern college, Isabel and their sons moved with him from New York City to Ohio, where Isabel taught acting, threw herself into the college community, and delighted in the less-scheduled lives of toddlers raised away from the city. But within a few months, the marriage was over. The life Isabel had made crumbled. "Happens every day," said a friend.
Far from a self-pitying diatribe, Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. Gillies has written a dizzyingly candid, compulsively listenable, ultimately redemptive story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life.
On the one hand, listening to this book is like hearing a train wreck. On the other hand, as Gillies herself says, it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away. Hers is a remarkable new voice -- instinctive, funny, and irresistible.
©2009 Isabel Gillies; 2009 Simon & Schuster, Inc.