My Husband’s Not Home
“GOLDEN” BOOK 2016 – More than 20,000 copies sold in Israel.
No butterflies here, or romantic sunsets. Instead a fast, furious and hilarious book that you cannot put down except to laugh out loud. The heroine is a successful lawyer who has always done the “right thing,” until one day her husband leaves her for an older, less attractive woman and she tries to fathom where she went wrong.
Halperin is skilled at describing this woman who apparently has everything. She is wealthy, attractive and fashionable, has a high-octane career, two teenage children who drive her crazy, and an eccentric mother – an aging diva – who lives in an old folks home and flirts with all the men, much to her daughter’s embarrassment. She has to juggle all these, as well as her search for a new husband, without losing her cool or creasing her designer blouse. She fights on all fronts and fails on all of them, but doesn’t break. Cynical, uninhibited and godless, she dares to speak about things that everyone else hides: Why kids don’t bring happiness, what routine sex with a husband is like, how to live with betrayal, what women are prepared to sacrifice for marriage, and what men are prepared to do for sex.
Mercilessly and with infectious humor, Halperin follows the heroine’s juggling act, which is also the story of an entire generation of frazzled women, the first to be told that they can have it all – marriage, a home, children, a career, a good salary, as well as looking like a million dollars.
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“Written with a light touch and much charm and its tempo is quick, not to say frenzied … What’s funny about this book is the audacity of the narrator to say things that others may think, but would not necessarily be prepared to say out loud … The style resembles a machine gun firing: fast and efficient … It should be a bestseller.”
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“Touches upon the struggle that most women are engaged in … Every single sentence here is witty, and you’ll burst out laughing at least once in each paragraph.”
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“Merav Halperin has written a bestseller that fits the Facebook age like a glove: Short, flowing chapters written with effortless wit … Halperin’s writing is like a fun, frank conversation with a good girlfriend.”