If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets

Parenting & Relationships

DeLuca, Virginia

Family Relationships

Apprentice House

**#1 Amazon Bestseller** "What a fantastic book...like reading a mystery, racing to see what happens...and then finding clarity and the triumph of the ending." - ABIGAIL THOMAS, New York Times bestselling author of A Three Dog LifeSometimes, we know the least about those we love the most. It took less than an hour for an old life to end and a new one to begin. When Virginia DeLuca's sixty-year-old husband abruptly walked out on their serene and happy-even joyful-marriage, proclaiming a sudden desire to have babies, everyone had a theory. He already knocked someone up. Nervous breakdown. Brain tumor. After DeLuca met her husband, she learned that it was possible for her to love with abandon and entwine her life with this caring and compassionate man. But fourteen years later, she was only left with the mystery of the ending.DeLuca, a psychotherapist, spent decades helping clients cope with sudden losses and dramatic changes-and now it's happened to her. Now, she must hunt to find the truth of her own story. In the tradition of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets is an unflinching exploration of love and relationships from a woman who ultimately found that life can expand in unanticipated ways.

1972 – A time of war and Watergate, of Ms. Magazine and consciousness raising. As the post-World War II era of peace, prosperity, and pointy bras gives way to the life-expanding changes of the women’s movement, four women meet and over the course of two decades, create a space that allows them all to thrive, with humor and irreverence, as they each struggle to reconcile the realities of adult life with the expectations of youth. 
 “Virginia DeLuca’s captivating novel, 'As If Women Mattered', fuses compelling social drama with page-turning storytelling. Four women, whose consciousness-raising group becomes a life-long, life-saving family of the heart, wrestle with marriage, motherhood, careers and sex, during a time when no one knew the rules anymore, and it was all up for grabs. The entwined stories of these women will keep you up way past midnight, experiencing the extraordinary era when women rose up and found their voices, and each other.”
 Randy Susan Meyers, International Bestselling Author of "The Murderer’s Daughters" and "The Comfort of Lies"
 “'As If Women Mattered' takes me vividly back to my own experiences in the early second-wave women’s movement and, in its characters’ lives, highlights many of the dynamics and issues that made those years so fascinating, so fraught and so fruitful. Thank you especially, Ginny DeLuca, for following the ongoing friendship between these four women over time.”
 Wendy Sanford, cofounder and coauthor, "Our Bodies, Ourselves"

As If Women Mattered

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Riverrun Bookstore Inc

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