Separation Anxiety

“Separation Anxiety is a hilarious heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: Start reading and don’t stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel.  —Alice Hoffman AN ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM:Entertainment Weekly * Cosmopolitan * USA Today * Real Simple * Parade * Buzzfeed * Glamour * PopSugar From bestselling author Laura Zigman a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose life is unraveling and the well-intentioned but increasingly disastrous steps she takes to course-correct her relationships her career and her belief in herselfJudy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy’s old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling Judy felt connected to another living being and she’s repeated the process every day since.Life hasn’t gone according to Judy’s plan. Her career as a children’s book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive. Teddy now a teenager treats her with some combination of mortification and indifference. Her best friend is dying. And her husband Gary has become a pot-addled professional “snackologist” who she can’t afford to divorce. On top of it all she has a painfully ironic job writing articles for a self-help website—a poor fit for someone seemingly incapable of helping herself.Wickedly funny and surprisingly tender Separation Anxiety offers a frank portrait of middle-aged limbo examining the ebb and flow of life’s most important relationships. Tapping into the insecurities and anxieties that most of us keep under wraps and with a voice that is at once gleefully irreverent and genuinely touching Laura Zigman has crafted a new classic for anyone taking fumbling steps toward happiness.