{"product_id":"false-sense-of-well-being","title":"False Sense of Well Being","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFalse Sense of Well Being\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJeanne Braselton\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780345443120\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBallantine Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Braselton's confident first novel is [a] depiction of love on the rocks in the New South that combines small town charm with major league angst. . . . A down-home Proustian recherché search . . . [An] entertaining, rueful account of an apparently 'normal' marriage.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Simply extraordinary. [This novel] has the wit and modern comedy of Nora Ephron and the literary force of Flannery O'Connor.\"\u003cbr\u003e-KAYE GIBBONS\u003cbr\u003e Author of \u003ci\u003eEllen Foster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox has a comfortable life in Glenville, Georgia, with the most responsible husband in the world. But after the storybook romance, \"happily ever after\" never came. Now Jessie is left to wonder: Why can't she stop picturing herself as the perfect grieving widow? As Jessie dives headlong into her midlife crisis, she is joined by a colorful cast of eccentrics. There's her best friend Donna, who is having a wild adulterous affair with a younger man; Wanda McNabb, the sweet-natured grandmother who is charged with killing her husband; Jessie's younger sister Ellen, who was born to be a guest on \u003ci\u003eJerry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpringer\u003c\/i\u003e; their mother, who persistently crosses the dirty words out of library books; and of course the stuffed green headless duck. . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a trip home to the small town of her childhood raises more questions than it answers, Jessie is forced to face the startling truth head-on-and confront the tragedy that has shadowed her heart and shaken her faith in love . . . and the future.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"False Sense of Well Being | Jeanne Braselton | Paperback | 9780345443120 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1668113","offer_id":50789226152194,"sku":"1668113","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/710FhC7aTsL.jpg?v=1792296816","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/false-sense-of-well-being","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}