{"product_id":"no-smoothing-it-out-josana-roiz-9798187154517","title":"No Smoothing It Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix people sat down in Maria's living room to explain, with all the politeness in the world, why she should move out of her own house.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey just forgot to read the deed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria spent six years being the perfect wife: the one who cooks at ten p.m., apologizes for things she didn't do, and sits on the breakfast-room chair while her husband's family takes the sofas. She is a credit analyst who can spot a forged pay stub from thirty feet away - and the one woman in the building who never ran the numbers on her own marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Adriano announces, with the calm of a man commenting on the weather, that the other woman is pregnant. Days later, the delegation arrives: the mother-in-law, the sister-in-law, the mistress with her belly on display - and a draft agreement ready to sign.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat none of them knew is that \u003cb\u003ethe house has an owner. And the owner stayed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this novel does not end with the standing ovation. It begins there. Because after the sentence that silences an entire family, the question no viral story ever answers remains: \u003cb\u003ewhat about the next morning?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith razor-sharp humor and a tenderness that cuts, \u003ci\u003eNo Smoothing It Out\u003c\/i\u003e follows a woman rebuilding her life on an uncomfortable truth: \u003cb\u003ecrumpled paper doesn't smooth back out. Neither do people.\u003c\/b\u003e Peace doesn't arrive on the day the creases disappear - it arrives on the day you stop waiting for that and decide, even so, to write the best story the paper you have left can hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel about betrayal, inheritance, and starting over - for every woman who ever smoothed a crumpled page with her hand and called it love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josana Roiz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798187154517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d","brand":"Josana Roiz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174378283263,"sku":"9798187154517","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/no-smoothing-it-out-josana-roiz-9798187154517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}