Still Life With Husband

Description

A funny and heartbreaking tale of thirty-ish life. Emily is a perfectly normal, loveable and flawed character who crosses a line some would see as unforgiveable, and risks everything she has to find out what she really wants. This is a funny and heartbreaking tale of thirty-ish life. Emily Ross is thirty and has a good life. She is married to Kevin - they hooked up nine years ago at college and have now been married for five years. He is a doting, responsible and loving husband. Emily's best friend Meg is the perfect best friend; funny, smart, available and always there. Emily has a steady stream of freelance writing jobs and a permanent part-time editing job and she happily lives in an apartment in the city. Some would call this the perfect life but it is hardly exciting. Then Kevin begins to insist on moving to suburbia and starting a family, and Meg gets pregnant and wants their children to grow up together. Emily struggles with these changes and decisions and questions whether or not she wants the picture-perfect life. Enter David Keller, a handsome writer who works for the local alternative newspaper, who asks Emily out on a date. Emily impulsively answers yes, and

Lauren Fox earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her work has appeared in Utne, Seventeen, Glamour and Salon. She lives in Milwaukee with her husband and daughter.