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Cover image for book Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough

By:Ruth Pennebaker
Publisher:Penguin US
Print ISBN:9780425238561
eText ISBN:9781101478486
Edition:0
Format:Reflowable

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Witty and heartwarming, Pennebaker explores the challenges and triumphs of three generations of women living under the same roof. Joanie's ex-husband is having a baby with his new girlfriend. Joanie won't be having more babies, since she's decided never to have sex again. But she still has her teenaged daughter Caroline to care for. And thanks to the recession, her elderly mother Ivy as well. Her daughter can't seem to exist without texting, and her mother brags about "goggling,"-while Joanie, back in the workforce, is still trying to figure out her office computer. And how to fend off the advances of her coworker Bruce. Joanie, Caroline, and Ivy are stuck under the same roof, and it isn't easy. But sometimes they surprise each other-and themselves. And through their differences they learn that it is possible to undo the mistakes of the past.

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