Erasing Maddie

ISBN: 1466313609

Author: McGlone, Julie

Condition: New

Product Description When Madeline Jarvis walks away from her life, it signals the death of a forty-year marriage. Erasing Maddie is a poignant and humorous story that engages the reader with its changes in lifestyle, roles, and relationships. Erasing Maddie leads the reader through the grief of a stunned husband to all of Maddies efforts to reinvent herself. Although it is a work of fiction, the author suspects there is not a married woman alive who has not wanted to walk away and find herself at some point. When she confessed the plot to her husband, he quickly replied, Let me write the husbands side! Dont you think men want to run away, too? McGlones first book, Life Takes Detours, is a memoir. Reviewers said, McGlone enthusiastically celebrates every experience as she allows the reader an intimate and revealing look into her private perspectives on successfully navigating lifes many demanding roles. Life Takes Detours won the Editors Choice Award and received excellent reviews. About the Author Her sixties have been the most satisfying time of Julie McGlone's life. The daughters are grown, the grandkids are delightful, and she has escaped the surly bonds of full time employment. "My mother would have been proud of how we raised our two daughters, and I am proud that they are raising their families with grace and love. And rules! We showed our children how to be a spouse, parent, grandparent and teacher. Now it's time to show them how to retire after working so hard." Julie and her husband Charles have been sweethearts since they were sixteen. They have travelled the globe, and Julie always manages to find a writing, cooking or art class. Her new favorite quote is "Life begins when you get out of your comfort zone."That is exactly how she operates-in the deep end, always seeking new challenges. One day she said to her husband, "Did you ever notice that artists are eccentric and writers are ditzy?" He didn't skip a beat. "Yes, I'm married to both of them." Nothing gives her greater pleasure than working on art projects with her grandchildren. On one occasion, three year old Katie drew the most colorful fish in crayon. Julie showed her how to paint watercolors over the crayon resist. Beaming over her accomplishment, Katie climbed on a chair and got a cup of water. Then she poured it on the fish, the paper and the dining room table. In the calmest voice she could muster, Julie asked the budding artist why she did that. "It has to live!" Who could argue with that logic?