How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting

How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over

â€œI feel like Iâ€™ve joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large,â€ writes Theo Pauline Nestor in this wry, fiercely honest chronicle of life after divorce.

Less than an hour after confronting her husband over his massive gambling losses, Theo banishes him from their home forever. With two young daughters to support and her life as a stay-at-home mother at an abrupt end, Nestor finds herself slipping from â€œmiddle-class graceâ€ as she attends a court-ordered custody class, stumbles through job interviews, andâ€“much to her surpriseâ€“falls in love once again. As Theo rebuilds her life and recovers her sense of self, sheâ€™s forced to confront her own familyâ€™s legacy of divorce. â€œIâ€™m from a long line of stock market speculators, artists of unmarketable talents, and alcoholics,â€ writes Nestor. â€œThe higher, harder road is not our road. We move, we divorce, we drink, or we disappear.â€

Nestorâ€™s journey takes her deep into her familyâ€™s past, to a tiny village in Mexico, where she discovers the truth about how her sister ended up living in a convent there after their parents divorced in the early sixties. What she learns ultimately brings her closer to understanding her own divorce and its impact on her two daughters. â€œI knew from experience that for children divorce means half the world is constantly eclipsed. When youâ€™re with one parent, the other must always slip out of view,â€ Nestor writes.

Funny, openhearted, and brave, How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed will speak to anyone who has passed through the halls of divorce court or risked tenderness after loss. It marks the debut of an enchanting, deeply truthful voice.
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 71414
Color White
ReleaseDate 2009-02-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307346773

Country	USA
Brand	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	71414
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2009-02-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307346773

How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over

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