Outtakes from a Marriage

A sparkling debut novel...a bittersweet tale about love marriage and the perils of fame. PeopleJulia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joes finally made it; hes the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe. Even better Julia and Joe are still madly in love.. Or so Julia thinks until the fateful evening when she accidentally hears a voice mail on Joes phonea message left by a woman who is clearly more than a friend. Suddenly Julia is in a tailspin compulsively checking Joes messages stalking him in cyberspace and showing up unannounced on his sets wondering all along if she should confront him.Julias search forces her to consider the possibility that in the long process of helping Joe become something she has become a bit of a nothing as her daughter once described her to her class on career day. When Julia and Joe first met she was an edgy East Village girl who wrote music reviews for the Village Voice and threw famed parties in a gritty downtown loft with her friends. But after Joe won her heart she settled into doting 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 Julia embarks on an accelerated self-improvement routine of Botox hair extensions and erotically charged shrink sessions while dodging the sancti-mommies who lie in wait for her at her sons preschool each day.. A unique take on the perennially popular issue of women trying not to lose themselves in matrimony and motherhood Outtakes from a Marriage is expertly and humorously set against the Manhattan preschool mafia the Hollywood machine and the ticking clock of a waiting red carpet.How does a free spirit turned wife and mother cope with her actor husband''s infidelity?...With tears irreverent humor and ultimately a reaffirmed sense of self...A witty take on marital survival in Manhattanwith heart.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)