false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255635110m/4907301.jpg 4907301 4 Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons.<P>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.<P>Far from a self-pitying diatribe, <I>Happens Every Day</i> reads like an intimate conversation between friends. Gillies has written a dizzyingly candid, compulsively readable, ultimately redemptive story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life. On the one hand, reading this book is like watching 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. 4972826 24 3 2009 Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story total:810|5:97|4:249|3:315|2:118|1:31| 810 2693 1668 312 1 7 false false Fri Dec 19 10:24:43 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 10:25:48 -0800 2008 4 3 false false Sun Apr 19 12:52:53 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 06:31:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 07:30:14 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 07:38:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 7 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 12:16:44 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 10:06:15 -0700 2009
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