Happens Every Day : An All-Too-True Story
By Isabel GilliesIsabel 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.
show more
Book details
- Paperback
- 272 pages
- English
- 1439126623
- 9781439126622
About Isabel Gillies
isabel gillies was Read More about Isabel Gillies
More Books By Isabel Gillies
People who bought this also bought
10,000 Days: A Call To Arms For The Baby Boom Generation
Used Book
Once a Wolf : The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution
Used Book
Whip Your Career Into Submission: The 30-Day Plan to Transform Yourself from Job Slave to Master of Your Own Destiny
Used Book
The Psychology of Selling: Increase Your Sales Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible
New Book
Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It
New Book
The Automatic Millionaire : A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
New Book
Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
New Book
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management, Vol. 2 (with bonus article Accelerate! by John P. Kotter)
New Book
Perspectives on Pentecost: New Testament Teaching on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Used Book
The Gina Ford Baby and Toddler Cook Book: Over 100 Easy Recipes for All the Family to Enjoy book by Gina Ford
New Book
The Coloured Girl in the Ring : A Guyanese Woman Remembers
Used Book
Our Daily Bread Devotional September, October, November 2020
Used Book
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking (with featured article Design Thinking By Tim Brown)
New Book
A World of Ideas : Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future
Used Book
Ethics in the Investment Profession: An International Survey
Used Book