Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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“A sparkling debut novel…a bittersweet tale about love, marriage, and the perils of fame.” —
People

Juliaand Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joe’sfinally made it; he’s the star of a hit TV show and has just beennominated for a Golden Globe. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madlyin love.

Or so Julia thinks until the fateful evening when sheaccidentally hears a voice mail on Joe’s phone—a message left by a woman who is clearly more than a friend. Suddenly Julia isin a tailspin, compulsively checking Joe’s messages, stalking him incyberspace, and showing up unannounced on his sets, wondering all alongif she should confront him.

Julia’ssearch forces her to consider the possibility that in the long process of helpingJoe become something, she has become a bit of a “nothing,” as her daughter once describedher to her class on career day. When Julia and Joefirst met, she was an edgy East Village girl who wrote music reviews for the VillageVoice and threw famed parties in a gritty downtown loft with her friends. But after Joe won her heart, she settled intodoting motherhood and a new life of comfy clothes and parenting associations.

Now,faced with the looming awards show and the possibility of a destroyed marriage, Juliaembarks on an accelerated self-improvement routine of Botox, hair extensions, anderotically charged shrink sessions while dodging the sancti-mommies who lie in waitfor her at her son’s preschool each day.

A unique take on the perennially popularissue of women trying not to lose themselves in matrimony and motherhood, Outtakesfrom a Marriage is expertly and humorously set against the Manhattan preschool mafia,the Hollywood machine, and the ticking clock of a waiting red carpet.


“Howdoes a free spirit turned wife and mother cope with her actor husband’sinfidelity?…With tears, irreverent humor and, ultimately, areaffirmed sense of self…A witty take on marital survival inManhattan—with heart.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)