Skipping a beat : a novel / Sarah Pekkanen.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Washington Square Press, 2011.Edition: 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. edDescription: 327 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 1451609825 (pbk.)
- 9781451609820 (pbk.)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Pekkanen Sar | Available | Slight water damage on side of last 40 pages | 33111006341842 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the author of the acclaimed The Opposite of Me , a poignant, witty novel about marriage, forgiveness, and the choices that give shape--and limits--to our lives.
What would you do if your husband suddenly wanted to rewrite all of the rules of your relationship? This is the question at the heart of Skipping a Beat , Pekkanen's thought-provoking second book.
From the outside, Julia and Michael seem to have it all. Both products of difficult childhoods in rural West Virginia - where they were simply Julie and Mike - they become high school sweethearts and fall in love. Shortly after graduation, they flee their small town to start afresh. Now thirty-somethings, they are living a rarified life in their multi-million-dollar, Washington D.C. home. Julia is a highly sought-after party planner, while Michael has just sold his wildly successful flavored water company for $70 million.
But one day, Michael collapses in his office. Four minutes and eight seconds after his cardiac arrest, a portable defibrillator jump-starts his heart. But in those lost minutes he becomes a different man. Money is meaningless to him - and he wants to give it all away. Julia, who sees bits of her life reflected in scenes from the world's great operas, is now facing with a choice she never anticipated. Should she should walk away from the man she once adored - but who truthfully became a stranger to her long before this pronouncement - or give in to her husband's pleas for a second chance and a promise of a poorer but happier life?
As wry and engaging as her debut, but with quiet depth and newfound maturity, Skipping a Beat is an unforgettable portrait of a marriage whose glamorous surface belies the complications and betrayals beneath.
What would you do if your husband suddenly wanted to rewrite the rules of your relationship?