Bitter Bitch (Paperback, Export Ed.)

On a miserable January morning, Sarah is sitting on a plane to Tenerife, Spain without her husband or her children for a week-long vacation. At the age of thirty, she s just realized that she s very angry with her life, her choices, and her family and that she s becoming a bitter bitch. For plane reading, she carries a copy of Erica Jong s Fear of Flying and suddenly wishes it were 1975 instead of 2005 although she wonders how things have gotten so bad that all she craves is a full night s sleep instead of a zipless f**k. Sarah never intended for things to turn out the way they have: She just dreamed of love like everyone else. But now she s sitting on the plane, thinking about all the injustices she s suffered. Thinking about how thoroughly fooled she was by the storybook promise of love the one that makes us want to start a family. Thinking about all the women she knows who, like her, were drained of all their energy and sentenced to a family prison an inheritance passed down directly from generation to generation, from her restless mother s eczema-covered dishpan hands to her own nervous over-achiever complex. Angry and candid, Bitter Bitch is a wild, uncompromising novel, at the heart of which is one of the most important women s issues: How can we ever have an egalitarian society when we can t even live in equality with those we love?