Erica Abeel

author of Wild Girls

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Only When I Laugh

“Only When I Laugh” What happens when a woman who loves being married gets thrown out into the “real” world, kicking, screaming and alone? Divorce adds up to an ugly arithmetic for Erica — two kids, no husband, no job. Marooned in a sea of singles, edging through the minefields of loneliness, at first she barely copes — then she begins to live again — and finally she even tries for happiness. Autobiographical fiction called by a reviewer “pungent, acid, hilarious, moving.”

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