SUMMARY:
Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention
Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation.
What would you do, if you were going to break out and away? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you want – and then some? Start a dating service for people over fifty to reclaim the razzle-dazzle in your life–or your marriage? Seek comfort in the face of aging, look for love in the midst of loss, find friendship in the most surprising of places?
Imagine that the people in these wonderful stories – who do all of these things and more – are asking you: What would you do, if nobody was looking?
So far, the stories follow a sort of formulaeic pattern of experience and memory, emotion and physicality, and they all seem to end on a sort of philosophical plane. which, and you'll sense a pattern here, annoyed me at first. but then i guess that's what you do with short stories - everything has to be wrapped up in this little package, and since it's only a glimpse into the whole story, there really is no "ending". so i guess that's the significance of finishing with a questing thought or a random memory. First impression: i am just annoyed at what seems to be blatant pandering to female readers: the bright pink color scheme, the diet themed title, etc. (i do realize however that neither of those things may have been the choice of the author.) So far, the writing is confessional, sometimes amusing, although i don't find such an obsession with weight watchers that hilarious.
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