A Window Opens: A Novel
Elisabeth Egan
แแแ. 2015 ยท Simon and Schuster ยท แแแฎแ แแแแแ: Julia Whelan
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What happens when having it all proves too much to handle? In this โfresh, funny take on the age-old struggle to have it allโ (People) a wife and mother of three leaps at the chance to fulfill her professional destinyโonly to learn every opportunity comes at a price.
โA winning, heartfelt debutโ (Good Housekeeping), A Window Opens introduces Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays many roles (which she never refers to as โwearing many hatsโ and wishes you wouldnโt, either). She is a (mostly) happily married mother of three, an attentive daughter, an ambivalent dog-owner, a part-time editor, a loyal neighbor and a Zen commuter. She is not: a cook, a craftswoman, a decorator, an active PTA member, a natural caretaker, or the breadwinner. But when her husband makes a radical career change, Alice is ready to lean inโand she knows exactly how lucky she is to land a job at Scroll, a hip young start-up which promises to be the future of reading. The Holy Grail of working mothersโan intellectually satisfying job and a happy personal lifeโseems suddenly within reach.
Despite the disapproval of her best friend, who owns the local bookstore, Alice is proud of her new โbalancing actโ (which is more like a three-ring circus) until her dad gets sick, her marriage flounders, her babysitter gets fed up, her kids start to grow up, and her work takes an unexpected turn. In the midst of her second coming of age, Alice realizes the question is not whether itโs possible to have it all but, what does she really want the most?
โSmart and entertainingโฆwith refreshing straight-forwardness and humorโ (The Washington Post), โfans of I Donโt Know How She Does It and Whereโd You Go, Bernadette will adore A Window Opensโ (Booklist, starred review).
โA winning, heartfelt debutโ (Good Housekeeping), A Window Opens introduces Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays many roles (which she never refers to as โwearing many hatsโ and wishes you wouldnโt, either). She is a (mostly) happily married mother of three, an attentive daughter, an ambivalent dog-owner, a part-time editor, a loyal neighbor and a Zen commuter. She is not: a cook, a craftswoman, a decorator, an active PTA member, a natural caretaker, or the breadwinner. But when her husband makes a radical career change, Alice is ready to lean inโand she knows exactly how lucky she is to land a job at Scroll, a hip young start-up which promises to be the future of reading. The Holy Grail of working mothersโan intellectually satisfying job and a happy personal lifeโseems suddenly within reach.
Despite the disapproval of her best friend, who owns the local bookstore, Alice is proud of her new โbalancing actโ (which is more like a three-ring circus) until her dad gets sick, her marriage flounders, her babysitter gets fed up, her kids start to grow up, and her work takes an unexpected turn. In the midst of her second coming of age, Alice realizes the question is not whether itโs possible to have it all but, what does she really want the most?
โSmart and entertainingโฆwith refreshing straight-forwardness and humorโ (The Washington Post), โfans of I Donโt Know How She Does It and Whereโd You Go, Bernadette will adore A Window Opensโ (Booklist, starred review).
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Elisabeth Egan is the books editor at Glamour. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Self, Glamour, O, The Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, the Huffington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Washington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times and The Newark Star-Ledger. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
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