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Once Upon A Nervous Breakdown by Sanchez, Patrick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Once Upon A Nervous Breakdown about?

Patrick Sanchez delivers a hilarious, moving, and all-too-true snapshot of a generation of women stretched between extremes, frazzled by time and tides, and determined to make everything work without losing themselves in the process. Jennifer Costas has her hands full. She's the single mother of a five-year-old son; her full-time job is only getting busier; her force-of-nature college roommate recently showed up on her doorstep in need of a place to stay . . . indefinitely; her increasingly cranky "old-world" mother answers the phone every morning with, "I'm not dead" and her newly out-of-the-closet ex-husband is constantly late with his child support payments while he tries to get his new restaurant, Gonads (think gay Hooters) off the ground. She feels guilty about not making "stay-at-home mom cookies" and wary about tip-toeing into the dating scene carrying thirty-six years' worth of baggage. Having it all means juggling it all, and Jennifer's trying desperately not to drop anything. But just when Jennifer thinks she's operating at maximum capacity, her mother's health begins to fail. Faced with taking care of her mother in addition to her son, keeping her career on track, and ma

Who reads Once Upon A Nervous Breakdown?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Sanchez, Patrick
Publisher
New York: Kensington Books
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780758210029
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
Rating
3.42 / 5 (66 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14