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by Janet Garber (Author)
When Lucie, a smart and sassy girl from NYC, meets Pierre, a dashing Frenchman, at a grad school party in 1973, she abandons her PhD program to run off with him. It's the start of the sexual revolution, and she doesn't intend to miss a thing. They first land in Mexico, then marry and settle in Paris to live the dream. But not long into their marriage, Pierre becomes an intolerant critic of her wifely imperfections; Lucie just can't seem to measure up to French standards.
Instead of settling into her new life, she balks at French customs. As planned, she has their baby son in 1976, but far from succeeding in settling her down, the baby highlights her inability to depend on Pierre and precipitates a meltdown. Finally, she makes two friends, young mothers she's met at the playground. When one of them tries to commit suicide, Lucie panics and considers returning to the U.S. but fears the impact on her young son. An English-speaking women's writing group sets her on the right path. Ultimately, those women help her realize what she truly needs and wants out of life: to be a mother, a career woman, and a writer.Author Biography
Janet Garber holds an MA in English from the University of Rochester. Her work has been published in the Wall Street Journal's Vertical Network, The New York Times, New York Post, Working Mother Magazine, HR Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul, dozens of literary journals (The Raven's Perch, Forge Literary Magazine, Tigershark Publishing), several anthologies, and elsewhere. She's published two books: I Need a Job, Now What? (Silver Lining Books, 2001), rereleased as Getting a Job (Barnes & Noble Books, 2003), and Dream Job: Wacky Adventures of an HR Manager. She continues to publish in multiple genres, from humor to horror. Garber lives fifty miles north of the Big Apple; when she's not writing, you can find her hiking in the Gunks with her hubby, in the audience at live music events, or trying to talk some sense into her two charming rescue cats. She lives in Somers, NY.
