Book description
Have you ever sat across the breakfast table from your husband and
wondered, "How did I get here?" Do the things that once made
you complete-including your husband-now feel like a burden? Is the life
you are leading an unrecognizable version of the one you imagined for
yourself not so very long ago? Welcome to the world of Melanie Gideon.
THE SLIPPERY YEAR chronicles a year in which Gideon confronts both the
fantasies of her receding youth and the realities of midlife with a
husband and a child and a dog (one of whom runs away). Marriage changes
passion, Gideon confides; suddenly you're in bed with a relative (in
Gideon's case, a relative with a penchant for buying residential
vehicles online.) She reflects on the exigencies of family life-the need
for a household catastrophe plan, the fainting spell occasioned by the
departure of her nine year old son for camp. With wit, tenderness, and
unsparing honesty, Gideon captures that moment in our lives when the
magic starts to ebb, and when the things you have loved forever begin to
fall away for the first time. It is the story of a woman's quest, in the
face of all the big questions ("What's this loose skin around my
knees? I don't look as old as she does, do I?") to reignite
passion, beauty and mystery, and discover if 'happily ever after' is a
possibility after all.
