Barbara Slate
Accomplished comic artist Barbara Slate--who has been called "titanically talented" by Stan Lee and her work "emphatically of our time" by the ,New York Times--,lets it all out in a savagely funny and emotionally honest fictional narrative, told in a series of hilarious panels.,Â  After having been a good girl and following her motherâ€™s advice to snag a husband before she became a twenty-something spinster, Barbara Slate realized that her Mr. Right was actually Mr. Wrong and that she was living her life according to everyoneâ€™s rules but her own. After twelve years of an unblissful marriage, she made her escape.,Â Â Â Now this accomplished comic artist lets it all out in a savagely funny and emotionally honest fictional narrative. Jo, her stand-in protagonist, is a successful wedding photographer (of all things) who has been dumped by her husband and desperately needs to get on with her life. She follows her friendsâ€™ advice to get laid, see a shrink, go out more, and live a little. Nothing works. Eventually she realizes that she must stop listening to what everybody else tells her and follow her own voice instead.,Â Â Â Joâ€™s struggle with female guilt and her quest for self-awareness, told in a series of hilarious panels, is the perfect book for any woman needing to take back control of her life, or remembering when she did.,"A must-read for any woman who has ever been cheated on, owned a Barbie, or once believed their mother's version of â€˜happily ever afterâ€™. Skip the pity party and buy this book!â€ â€”Josie Brown, author, ,Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives, and ,The Housewife Assassin's Handbook
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