A False Sense Of Well Being by Jeanne Braselton
WINER OF THE GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVELBraselton's confident first novel is [a] depiction of love on the rocks in the New South that combines small town charm with major league angst. . . . A down-home Proustian recherche search . . . [An] entertaining, rueful account of an apparently 'normal' marriage.
-Los Angeles Times
Simply extraordinary. [This novel] has the wit and modern comedy of Nora Ephron and the literary force of Flannery O'Connor.
-KAYE GIBONS
Author of Ellen Foster
At thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox has a comfortable life in Glenville, Georgia, with the most responsible husband in the world. But after the storybook romance, happily ever after never came. Now Jessie is left to wonder: Why can't she stop picturing herself as the perfect grieving widow? As Jessie dives headlong into her midlife crisis, she is joined by a colorful cast of eccentrics. There's her best friend Donna, who is having a wild adulterous affair with a younger man; Wanda McNabb, the sweet-natured grandmother who is charged with killing her husband; Jessie's younger sister Ellen, who was born to be a guest on Jerry Springer; their mother, who persistently crosses the dirty words out of library books; and of course the stuffed green headless duck. . . .
When a trip home to the small town of her childhood raises more questions than it answers, Jessie is forced to face the startling truth head-on-and confront the tragedy that has shadowed her heart and shaken her faith in love . . . and the future.
Jeanne Braselton was born and raised in Georgia. She is the adopted daughter of a poet who was designated chief of the Cherokee Nation. While working as a journalist for the Rome News Tribune, she won numerous Georgia Press Association awards. A False Sense of Well-Being is her first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780345443120 |
| ISBN 10 | 0345443128 |
| Title | A False Sense Of Well Being |
| Author | Jeanne Braselton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2002-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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