Summary:
In A Window Opens, beloved
books editor at Glamour magazine Elisabeth Egan brings us
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 career change, Alice is ready to lean in—and she knows exactly how
lucky she is to land a job at Scroll, a hip young start-up which promises to be
the future of reading, with its chain of chic literary lounges and dedication
to beloved classics. The Holy Grail of working mothers―an intellectually
satisfying job and a happy personal life―seems suddenly within reach.
Despite the disapproval of her best friend, who owns the local bookstore, Alice is proud of her new “balancing act” (which is more like a three-ring circus) until her dad gets sick, her marriage flounders, her babysitter gets fed up, her kids start to grow up and her work takes an unexpected turn. Readers will cheer as Alice realizes the question is not whether it’s possible to have it all, but what does she―Alice Pearse―really want?
Despite the disapproval of her best friend, who owns the local bookstore, Alice is proud of her new “balancing act” (which is more like a three-ring circus) until her dad gets sick, her marriage flounders, her babysitter gets fed up, her kids start to grow up and her work takes an unexpected turn. Readers will cheer as Alice realizes the question is not whether it’s possible to have it all, but what does she―Alice Pearse―really want?
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About the Author:
Elisabeth Egan is the books editor at Glamour. Her essays and book
reviews have appeared in Self, Glamour,
O, People, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Huffington Post, The New York Times Book
Review, LA Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and the Newark Star-Ledger. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
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