The Office of Desire by Martha Moody

The Office of Desire by Martha Moody

From the nationally bestselling author of the novel Best Friends- a touching novel about five very different people navigating work-and life.

Alicia, Brice, and Caroline are the ABCs-three close friends who have been brought together while working at the cozy medical practice of Drs. Markowitz and Strub in Midburg, Ohio. But when Alicia and Dr. Strub begin an affair, a dramatic chain of events ensues that gradually but drastically changes the office environment-ultimately requiring all five coworkers to redefine their relationships to one another. Finally, a questionable business venture precipitates a tragedy that will either tear them apart or bring them closer together.

Touching and insightful, The Office of Desire an office novel that will resonate with anyone who has ever experienced the unlikely alliances that develop at work, and seen what happens when those relationships are altered.

Martha Moody has lived in Ohio her entire life. Moody, a novelist and physician from Dayton, has sold almost a million copies of his three prior works of fiction. Moody was born in Canfield and raised in Mount Vernon and Mentor, where she attended Mentor High School and Oberlin College. She is the author of Best Friends (2001), The Office of Desire (2007), and Sometimes Mine (2009). At the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, she earned her MD and finished her residency. She was a private practice internist for fifteen years before retiring to spend more time writing and with her husband and four sons. Since 2000, she has volunteered as a doctor at a working-poor clinic, as a writing teacher for schools and arts centers, and in the Dayton Jewish community, for which she has received multiple honors. She has led groups of volunteers to Israel for the past five summers to teach English at a two-week camp in Deir al-Assad, an Arab village in the Galilee.

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ISBN 13	9781594483103
ISBN 10	1594483108
Title	The Office of Desire
Author	Martha Moody
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Riverhead Books
Year published	2008-06-03
Number of pages	336
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