Bridget Asher

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Bridget Asher is a high-powered neurotic with an anxious heart that sometimes kicks up unexpectedly like a lawnmower motor in her chest. And because she's looked at the bios and author photos of a large number of other authors, she believes that she needs to attach a warning label or an advisory report or an apologia of some sort because...

1. She does not have an authentically dingy T-shirt a la Colson Whitehead.
2. She does not have teeth as grand and white and straight as Lolly Winston.
3. She cannot pull off funky striped leggings for an author photo like Myla Goldberg nor has she been able to pose with a pet bear on a leash like Gary Shteyngart. (In general, she balks at stunts with animals.)

On the posi...more Things you should know about Bridget

Bridget Asher is a high-powered neurotic with an anxious heart that sometimes kicks up unexpectedly like a lawnmower motor in her chest. And because she's looked at the bios and author photos of a large number of other authors, she believes that she needs to attach a warning label or an advisory report or an apologia of some sort because...

1. She does not have an authentically dingy T-shirt a la Colson Whitehead.
2. She does not have teeth as grand and white and straight as Lolly Winston.
3. She cannot pull off funky striped leggings for an author photo like Myla Goldberg nor has she been able to pose with a pet bear on a leash like Gary Shteyngart. (In general, she balks at stunts with animals.)

On the positive:
1. Her name is easier to pronounce than Gary Shteyngart.
2. She can buy the leggings and hope for the best!
3. She is not opposed to cosmetic dentistry -- as an art form.

And now she feels much better and can move onto her actual bio: In some ways, Bridget Asher is much like her heroine Lucy. She has fallen in love with loveable cheats. She has adored the wrong men for all the right reasons. She's as guilty as anyone. And, yes, like Lucy, her mistakes have made her who she is, and she's someone she's become fond of - except when she gets flustered ordering elaborate side dishes in sushi restaurants, in which case, she's overbearing.
She wanted to write a novel that, at its heart, focused on loving those we love for reasons we can't always fully rationalize; about friendships between women running deep; about dealing with compulsive mothers in velour sweat suits; about sweet liars and tenderhearted cheaters; about forgiveness of sorts, absolution and acceptance in the form of honesty and love.
Asher lives in Florida where she hopes she is being partially preserved by air conditioning and is married to a lovable, sweet man who has given her no reason to inquire about his former sweethearts (but, still, she's agonizingly curious). They have multiple children who are high-strung like their mother and sweet like their father.
That's the short bio. There's more, of course. There's much more. But she hopes this serves as some explanation for herself.(less)

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Books by Bridget Asher

Average rating: 3.43 · 2,160 ratings · 509 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted 3.69 avg rating — 780 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Pretend Wife 3.34 avg rating — 704 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	My rating:
	My Husband's Sweethearts 3.23 avg rating — 674 ratings — published 2008 — 18 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Bridget Asher

“we will spend this long afternoon crying and laughing at the same time, so that i can no longer tell which one is the truest form of grief.”
― Bridget Asher, My Husband's Sweethearts

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“Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward.”
― Bridget Asher

tags: grief , love , story

3 people liked it

“It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.”
― Bridget Asher, The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

tags: noise , world

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