SOLVED. Biography of a mother waking up [s]

[Warborn13]

I remember a hardback biography coming out between 2002 and 2007 from the perspective of a child about a mother that put down her sci-fi novel and started fixing her life. She got in better shape, went back to school, divorced her husband when he fought her about the changes, and showed her child/children that it could be done. I want to say 'My Mother Waking Up' is either in the title or the cover description. What is the title?

[BookWoman]

She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Warborn13, are you still looking for this? Was it "She Got Up Off the Couch?"

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

I'm guessing this is the right book, although I haven't been able to confirm the "sci-fi novel" and the divorce. Has anyone read this and can confirm those details?

[BookWoman]

From the back cover:

"After twenty years of burrowing into the corner of the family couch, eating junk food, and reading science fiction, Indiana mother Delonda Jarvis did something that shocked her family: she went to college.

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Despite having no money, no car, and a resentful husband, Delonda managed to obtain a master's degree in English. The former teenage bride also dropped one hundred pounds, learned how to drive, and become a breadwinner. but as she reclaimed herself, her marriage disintegrated."

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Thanks, that's helpful. I'm going to call this SOLVED.