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Title	:	Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story
Author	:	Isabel Gillies
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	March 24th 2009 by Scribner / S2e Book Publishing Co. (first published March 2nd 2009)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Biography Memoir. Marriage. Family Law. Divorce. Family

Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story

Isabel Gillies

Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 3.48 | 4158 Users | 788 Reviews

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Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons.

When Josiah took a teaching job at a Midwestern college, Isabel and their sons moved with him from New York City to Ohio, where Isabel taught acting, threw herself into the college community, and delighted in the less-scheduled lives of toddlers raised away from the city. But within a few months, the marriage was over. The life Isabel had made crumbled. "Happens every day," said a friend.

Far from a self-pitying diatribe, Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. Gillies has written a dizzyingly candid, compulsively readable, ultimately redemptive story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life. On the one hand, reading this book is like watching a train wreck. On the other hand, as Gillies herself says, it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away. Hers is a remarkable new voice -- instinctive, funny, and irresistible.

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ISBN:	1439110077 (ISBN13: 9781439110072)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.48 From 4158 Users | 788 Reviews

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She is not a quote unquote writer, but in some ways that is refreshing. Her style is very unaffected and flows along and pulls you right along, too. I read this book in about two sittings. It's just a story about a marriage breaking up b/c of an affair and I don't know that she says anything profound or that her experience is much different than others. Here are some quotes from it. She's funny a lot:"I wish I were the confident, cool person who can handle women from the past in an unruffled,

I read this book and only one word can describe this book: OUCH. The author Isabel Gillies describes in brutally honest detail the demise of her marriage to a college professor. She appeared to have the perfect life: handsome, brilliant husband, two beautiful boys, a beautiful old house and the good life in a small college town. Into the picture comes a new female professor in her husband's department whom Ms Gillies embraces as a new found friend and within 6 weeks, her marriage is destroyed

This was a lot of unrealized potential. Wrapped in Lulu DK fabric and William Morris wallpaper.

I'm going to have to read ALL OF THE ROMANCES to get over these books that I'm reading for divorce research. Let me just say that this is one of four memoirs that I have read/am reading about women who've been blindsided by divorce. Know what all four of those women have in common? They had a baby no more than two years before the husband came in with a dramatic sigh and "I deserve happiness, too" or "I just can't do this anymore." Imagine the world if all of us women could make these sweeping

I am giving this book 2 stars because it was easy and fast to read and get over with. I have a hard time relating to a spoiled rich girl with an easy life before and after her divorce. Sure when your husband leaves you for another woman it is devastating, but when all you have to do is move to your rich parents house on Park Ave, pick up where you left off with all your old loyal friends and spend all summer at the beach in Maine, sorry, no sympathy here. I mean who goes around crying and

God, what an elitist brat! I could not stand her! I live two doors down from "bricky", so I was very excited to read this book bc it is fun to read about the place where you are. I added 1 star purely bc I enjoyed knowing all the little shops and restaurants and buildings she wrote about. She was so disrespectful to the town of Oberlin. It was a classic case of a city snob looking down on the town. I am also from a city and live in this small town, so I am not exempt from being a fucker, but she

I see a couple of other brave individuals down there who went out on a limb to give this book a five-star rating, although I note that the vast majority of reviewers took Isabel Gillies to task for her inability to write. I must say I do not agree. I find this author/actress's style perfectly detailed and immensely readable. At her best, Gillies reminds me of Suzanne Finnamore on a softer, gentler day. She does make writing look easy, though, and I did finish the book feeling that Isable and I