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"I was married eleven years before I started imagining how different life could be if my husband were dead. . . ."At thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox subscribes to House Beautiful, Southern Living, even Psychology Today. She has a comfortable life in Glenville, Georgia, with Turner, the most reliable, responsible husband in the world. But after the storybook romance, "happily ever after" never came. Now the housewife who once wanted to be Martha Stewart before there was a Martha Stewart is left to wonder: Where did the marriage go wrong? Why can't she stop picturing herself as the perfect grieving widow?As Jessie dives headlong into her midlife crisis, she is aided and abetted by a colorful cast of characters in the true Southern tradition: her best friend and next door neighbor Donna, who is having a wild adulterous affair with a younger man; Wanda McNab, the sweater-knitting, cookie-baking grandmother who is charged with killing her abusive husband. Then there's Jessie's eccentric family. Her younger sister Ellen, born to be a guest on Jerry Springer, has taken her seven-year-old son and squawking pet birds and left her husband "for good this time" . . . while their mother crosses the

Author

Braselton, Jeanne, author

Publisher

Waterville, Maine: G.K. Hall & Co.

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780783896427

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

2.8 / 5 (544 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14