Book description
So you grow up as a member of the baby boom. You're well-brought up,
well-educated, and your parents have great expectations. And, yet,
somehow, you just don't feel you belong.
Along the way, you find the right wrong boyfriends: the poet-husband,
and bane of your mother's existence, the married Japanese doctor. When
love at last arrives, and the realization that it's just not in your
nature to hold down a nine-to-five, stick-with-the-program corporate
job, you discover that the one thing you thought would be very easy -
conception - doesn't happen. Square peg in a round hole? Absolutely.
But now it's called Waltzing the Tango - the humorous memoir
of Gabrielle Bauer. It's a tale most women will not only identify
with, but will also laugh along with - occasionally with the painful
pangs of self-recognition.
"She [Gabrielle Bauer] is the Canadian Bridget Jones."
Gabrielle Bauer's previous book, Tokyo, My Everest, won the
Japan-Canada Book Prize in 1997. Gabrielle writes frequently for
Chatelaine, Canadian Living, and Reader's Digest. She
has had various pieces published in The Globe and Mail. She
lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.
