Love and Death in a Perfect World

ISBN: 1938288467

Author: Gerber, Barbara

Condition: New

Everyone wants a piece of Rosemary Ellis. Her husband, her high-maintenance kid, her pregnant friend, the neighbor with the scary husband, the lonely guy with cancer, the local water-fight forces. Of course she should give all she has to give. Its what women do, right?With stark insight and wry humor, Love and Death in a Perfect World follows the arc of a modern womans life from tender adolescence to hard-edged middle age, offering a fresh, honest look at womens lives today. Against a backdrop of birth and death, financial turmoil, and environmental clashes, Love and Death in a Perfect World explores deep questions about human nature and modern life: How do we find connection in fractured middle-class America? How do we navigate a world that does not behave as promised? And where do we find the strength to rebuild our lives when expectations are shattered and the wrong people win?Gerber delivers a richly textured yet unsentimental portrait of a family that keeps on keeping on, and of a woman who expects to live in the light but must instead fight to find her own light in the darkness of everyday life.