false 6203173 4 "Metz's <i>Perfection</i> chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it." <br>--Julie Powell, author of <i>Julie & Julia</i> <br><br>"Julie Metz's memoir of how her marriage unraveled <i>after</i> her mate's death is piercingly honest, haunting, and heartbreaking. Anyone who has ever been in a bad relationship will over-identify." <br>--Susan Shapiro, author of <i>Five Men Who Broke My Heart</i> and <i>Lighting Up</i> <br><br> "It is impossible to put <i>Perfection</i> down as we follow Julie Metz through her true story of love, lies, loss, and moving forward. Her raw and brave writing makes you want to cheer Metz on as she pieces her life back together, one beautiful sentence at a time." <br>--Marian Fontana, author of <i>A Widow's Walk</i> <br><br> "This aching memoir of love, loss, and deception is candid and compelling. I found myself rooting for Julie Metz in her search for a happy `second life.'" --Hilma Wolitzer, author of The Doctor's Daughter and Hearts <br><br>Julie Metz's life changes forever on one ordinary January afternoon when her husband, Henry, collapses on the kitchen floor and dies in her arms. Suddenly, this mother of a six-year-old is the young widow in a bucolic small town. And this is only the beginning. Seven months after Henry's death, just when Julie thinks she is emerging from the worst of it, comes the rest of it: She discovers that what had appeared to be the reality of her marriage was but a half-truth. Henry had hidden another life from her. <br><br>"He loved you so much." That's what everyone keeps telling her. It's true that he loved Julie and their six-year-old daughter ebulliently and devotedly, but as she starts to pick up the pieces and rebuild her life without Henry in it, she learns that Henry had been unfaithful throughout their twelve years of marriage. The most damaging affair was ongoing--a tumultuous relationship that ended only with Henry's death. For Julie, the only thing to do was to get at the real truth--to strip away the veneer of "perfection" that was her life and confront each of the women beneath the veneer. <br><br><i>Perfection</i> is the story of Julie Metz's journey through chaos and transformation as she creates a different life for herself and her young daughter. It is the story of coming to terms with painful truths, of rebuilding both a life and an identity after betrayal and widowhood. It is a story of rebirth and happiness--if not perfection. 6383727 9 6 2009 Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal total:366|5:31|4:79|3:152|2:78|1:26| 366 1109 1246 141 5 0 false false Mon Oct 05 17:04:11 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 17:05:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 3 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 10:25:34 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 10:54:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 18:04:10 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 17:57:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 19:12:26 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 19:12:26 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 18:55:23 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 19:27:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 14:26:18 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 14:40:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 2 false false Wed Sep 09 05:58:53 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 06:11:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 22:23:33 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 22:23:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 14:14:25 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 14:14:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 17:09:57 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 17:23:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 14:59:56 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 15:11:08 -0700 2009
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