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Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother and her circle of feisty widows; her young neighbour, with two small children and a loud, angry husband; and the diabolical pubescent girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, wiser though definitely not sadder, Mia knows what she wants to fight for and on whose terms.
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Women poets, Divorced women, Interpersonal relations, Fiction, Authors, fiction, Divorced people, fiction, Fiction, psychological, New York Times reviewed, Lyrikerin, Mittleres Lebensalter, Ehekonflikt, Reise, Identitätsfindung, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, Frånskilda kvinnor, Skönlitteratur, Kvinnliga poeter, Mänskliga relationer, Separated womenShowing 10 featured editions. View all 18 editions?
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The summer without men: a novel
2011, Picador/Henry Holt and Co.
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Sommeren uden mænd: roman
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Mia is forced to reexamine her life when her husband puts their marriage on "pause" after thirty years. She returns to the prairie town of her childhood, and is drawn into the lives of those around her.
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