I read this book several months ago and totally forgot to review it! Which sucks too because it was such a good book.
Isabel Gillies was an actress (promising or not, who knows?) on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She met and married the love of her life and eventually quit her acting job to follow her husband to Oberlin College where he was to be a poetry professor. Not one time did she regret her move and decision and she did in fact embrace everything mid-western including the snowy winters. She threw herself into raising her two sons, renovating her dream home and teaching drama part-time. Her life, however, was on a fast track to disaster when her husband decided he didn't love her nor want to be married anymore. (Men don't leave because they're unhappy, by the way, the leave for another or the thought of another...this proved true with her scoundrel husband!).Gillies could have written a book slamming her husband and blaming him for the "dreams" she gave up but instead (through, I'm sure, miles of hindsight) she brought humor, some sorrow and a lot of realization and acceptance to her memoir. Interestingly, though she never seemed angry, I wanted to hunt her ex down and throttle him. Scream at him. And smack "the other woman" until a tooth or two fell out. Her book definitely made a sure point that men can indeed be dirty dogs but at the same time, she doesn't blame him totally for the total failure of their marriage. A really, really good read that I'd recommend to anyone - married, not, or in the midst of not being married.
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