**"A sparkling debut novel...a bittersweet tale about love, marriage,
and the perils of fame." --***People
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Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that
Joe's finally made it; he's the star of a hit TV show and has just been
nominated for a Golden Globe. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madly
in love.
Or so Julia thinks until the fateful evening when she accidentally hears
a voice mail on Joe's phone--a message left by a woman who is clearly
more than a friend. Suddenly Julia is in a tailspin, compulsively
checking Joe's messages, stalking him in cyberspace, and showing up
unannounced on his sets, wondering all along if she should confront
him.*
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Julia's search forces her to consider the possibility that in the long
process of helping Joe become something, she has become a bit of a
"nothing," as her daughter once described her to her class on career
day. When Julia and Joe first met, she was an edgy East Village girl who
wrote music reviews for the Village Voice and threw famed parties in a
gritty downtown loft with her friends. But after Joe won her heart, she
settled into doting motherhood and a new life of comfy clothes and
parenting associations.
Now, faced with the looming awards show and the possibility of a
destroyed marriage, Julia embarks on an accelerated self-improvement
routine of Botox, hair extensions, and erotically charged shrink
sessions while dodging the sancti-mommies who lie in wait for her at her
son's preschool each day.
A unique take on the perennially popular issue of women trying not to
lose themselves in matrimony and motherhood, Outtakes from a Marriage
is expertly and humorously set against the Manhattan preschool mafia,
the Hollywood machine, and the ticking clock of a waiting red carpet.
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*"How does a free spirit turned wife and mother cope with her actor
husband's infidelity?...With tears, irreverent humor and, ultimately, a
reaffirmed sense of self...A witty take on marital survival in
Manhattan--with heart." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
