Love and Other Natural Disasters

✍ Scribed by Shumas, Holly

• Book ID: 109258421
• Publisher: 5 Spot
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 139 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Eve is grateful for the family and friends that surround her Thanksgiving table, including her husband, Jonathon; their five-year-old son, Jacob; and a baby due to make its arrival in a few short weeks. But in this predictable second novel from Shumas (Five Things I Can't Live Without), Eve's idyll gets trashed when a phone call interrupts their holiday dinner and exposes Jonathon's too-cozy friendship with another woman. What turns out to be an emotional affair launches a maelstrom of emotions for both Eve and Jon, neither of whom realized how much their marriage had disintegrated. As they struggle to work things out, they learn a lot about themselves and each other. Throughout the novel, Shumas, a therapist, invites the reader to consider the question—is it cheating if nothing physical happens? Shumas relies heavily on the standard marriage-in-trouble arc (separation, his disheveled bachelor apartment, her ill-fated fling), and readers familiar with the formula will know what to expect. (Jan.)
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Review

For FIVE THINGS I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT:
"Smart sharply written, and very, very funny. This is a gem of a book."
--Whitney Gaskell, author of PUSHING 30