โ Scribed by Elisabeth Egan
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What happens when having it all proves too much to handle? In this "fresh, funny take on the age-old struggle to have it all" (People) a wife and mother of three leaps at the chance to fulfill her professional destiny--only to learn every opportunity comes at a price.
"A winning, heartfelt debut" (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 "wearing many hats" and wishes you wouldn't, 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...
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