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An âextraordinaryâ novel of the intertwined lives of three troubled women, by the New York Timesâbestselling author of Gone to Soldiers (San Francisco Chronicle). When her best friendâs death rattles her sense of complacency, college professor Leila Landsman decides sheâs finally had enough of her cheating husband. Leila throws herself into her work and encounters Becky Burgess, a local woman who climbed her way out of poverty but whose success is completely halted when she becomes the prime suspect in her husbandâs murder. Meanwhile, Leilaâs housekeeper, Mary Burke, is no stranger to failed marriage. Abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, and unable to support herself on her own income alone, Mary now secretly sleeps in her clientsâ houses, hiding her homelessness to remain employed and survive. Â Flawed but resourceful, frightened yet determined, these three women must draw on an inner strength they never knew existed to make it without the men theyâve come to depend on. Although their situations differ, Leila, Becky, and Mary have all reached their tipping pointsâand each is about to be pushed to the brinkâin this gripping and relatable story of the dangers of dependence and the liberating power of self-reliance. |
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