Every Other Wednesday

<div dir=auto><em>Three women each facing an empty nest come together to cheer and challenge one another in this insightful poignant new novel from acclaimed author Susan Kietzman.</em><br /><br />For years Ellie Alice and Joan enjoyed a casual friendship while volunteering at their children’s Connecticut high school. Now with those children grown and gone to college a local tragedy brings the three into contact again. But what begins as a catch-up lunch soon moves beyond small talk to the struggles of this next stage of life.<br /><br />Joan Howard has spent thirty years of marriage doing what’s expected of Howard women: shopping dressing well and keeping a beautiful home. Unfulfilled her boredom and emptiness eventually find a secret outlet at the local casino. Meanwhile Ellie’s efforts to expand her accounting business lead to a new friendship that clashes with her family’s traditional worldview. And Alice feeling increasingly distant from her husband and alienated from her once fit body takes up running again. But a terrifying ordeal shatters her confidence and spurs a decision that will affect all three women in different ways.<br /><br />Over the course of an eventful year Ellie Alice and Joan will meet every other Wednesday to talk plan—and find the freedom and the courage to redefine themselves.<br /><br /><strong>Praise for the novels of Susan Kietzman</strong><br /><br />“Beautifully written and closely observed…captures the deep and complicated love of family. Reading this lovely novel I felt the embrace of summer on the shoreline.” —<em>New York Times </em>bestselling author Luanne Rice on<em> The Summer Cottage</em><br /><br />“Readers will find themselves drawn into the tragedies and triumphs of this fictional family—distinct and yet utterly relatable.” —<em>Hartford Books Examiner </em>on<em> The Good Life</em></div>