How a Happily Married Woman Became a Widow Looking for Love in the Wilds of Suburbia (A Novel)
by Amy Holman Edelman
Isabel is stunned when she returns home from a dentist appointment to find her husband Michael dead from a brain hemorrhage. After a few sad months of grieving, she begins to consider re-entering the world of dating, something she never imagined in her wildest dreams, but her friends are encouraging her and her youngest daughter has requested a new daddy for Hannukah.
Dating is alot different today than it was fifteen years ago with internet services like JDate and match.com, but one thing hasn't changed: how hard it is to meet the right person, especially when you're living in the suburbs of New Jersey. Luckilly, between juggling her new roles as family breadwinner and single mom, Isabel has time to go on tons of dates and hang out with her upstairs neighbor, an unemployed musician/commitmentphobe, whom she refers to as her "friend with benefits".
by Amy Holman Edelman
Isabel is stunned when she returns home from a dentist appointment to find her husband Michael dead from a brain hemorrhage. After a few sad months of grieving, she begins to consider re-entering the world of dating, something she never imagined in her wildest dreams, but her friends are encouraging her and her youngest daughter has requested a new daddy for Hannukah.
Dating is alot different today than it was fifteen years ago with internet services like JDate and match.com, but one thing hasn't changed: how hard it is to meet the right person, especially when you're living in the suburbs of New Jersey. Luckilly, between juggling her new roles as family breadwinner and single mom, Isabel has time to go on tons of dates and hang out with her upstairs neighbor, an unemployed musician/commitmentphobe, whom she refers to as her "friend with benefits".
Frustrated by bad dates with losers and good dates with men who blow her off, Isabel sends an email to her friends offering a free trip anywhere in the world for the person who finds her a husband. Although her desperate email lands her a story on page 3 of the New York Post, Isabel still can't find the right guy, so she reluctantly takes a break from dating, learning to appreciate all the good things in her life and realizing that some things just cannot be rushed. This is a quick, light read but the middle of the book (and Isabel's dating desperation) became tiresome and a bit dull for me. This one was just okay.
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