Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439126622)

Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life--a handsome, intelligent, loving husband who was a professor; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house in their Midwestern college town; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, the life Isabel had made crumbled. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons. "Happens every day," said a friend.

Far from a self-pitying diatribe, Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. It is a dizzyingly candid, compulsively readable, ultimately redemptive story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life. On the one hand, reading this book is like watching a train wreck. On the other hand, as Gillies herself says, it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away.

Author: Isabel Gillies
ISBN-10: 1439126623
ISBN-13: 9781439126622
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2010
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 03/19/2010 pg. 94