Summer Without Men
Summer Without Men And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? And they are often more…
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Summer Without Men
And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there?
One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia's husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a pause. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment.Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward.
The June following Mia's release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people's home. Alone in a