The Honeymoon's Over; True Stories of Love, Marriage, and Divorce

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Isabel Rose saw red flags before her marriage, but everyone thought she'd made perfect match. Ann Hood's relationship with her husband had the usual bumps, until the tragic death of her young daughter forged their bond for life.

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Jesse puts his big arms around you and the baby, gets in the bathtub, the three of you, and nobody cares that the mat is soaked from the overflow. He rubs your underarms with a French crystal that keeps your sweat from smelling.

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You are divorced. The lawyer is making phone calls, writing papers that will take months to finalize, but that doesn't matter. You take off your wedding band; there is no white mark where the ring was. No band of light. Nothing.

Isabel Rose saw red flags before her marriage, but everyone thought she'd made perfect match. Ann Hood's relationship with her husband had the usual bumps, until the tragic death of her young daughter forged their bond for life. When Terry McMillan went through her public divorce, the trauma affected everyone in her life. While Joyce Maynard cared for her dying mother, her children's babysitter took even better care of her husband.

Andrea Chapin, after years of money battles with her musician husband, realized she had to become the mogul in the family. Annie Echols found her marriage on the rocks when an unexpected pregnancy upset her family's delicate balance. In The Honeymoon's Over, women candidly discuss the good times, the bad times, and what makes or breaks a marriage in essays that will resonate with readers- married, single, or divorced.

has been an editor at art, movie, theater and literary magazines, including The Paris Review, Conjunctions, Translation and The New Theater Review. She has lived and worked in Mexico and Spain and acted professionally in Germany in a thirty-six city tour of Edward Albee's Seascape. Her fiction has appeared in literary journals, and her articles and essays have appeared in magazines such as More, Self, Redbook and Martha Stewart Living as well as several anthologies, including The Day My Father Died and Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty.

Sally Wofford-Girand is a literary agent and founder of Brick House Literary Agents. She worked on Wall Street before seeking refuge in book publishing. She is a member of the international rights committee of the AAR and a board member of Ledig House, an international writers colony in New York State. She lives in New York City with her husband and their three children.

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