Judy was overwhelmed with anxiety, grief both in the recent past and known future and it was too much to bear. Judy and Gary were only living together in the same house because he could not afford to move out.Now I get it. Judy was 50 years old and had a teenager who was extremely non-communicative, a wonderful career of children's book author who hit writer' blog with a bang and her marriage was over. Read moreĪt first, I was a little confused about why she wore her shelty dog in a sling. Tapping into the insecurities and anxieties that most of us keep under wraps, and with a voice that is at once gleefully irreverent and genuinely touching, Laura Zigman has crafted a new classic for anyone taking fumbling steps toward happiness. Wickedly funny and surprisingly tender, Separation Anxiety offers a frank portrait of middle-aged limbo, examining the ebb and flow of life’s most important relationships. On top of it all, she has a painfully ironic job writing articles for a self-help website-a poor fit for someone seemingly incapable of helping herself. And her husband, Gary, has become a pot-addled professional “snackologist” who she can’t afford to divorce. Teddy, now a teenager, treats her with some combination of mortification and indifference. Her career as a children’s book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive. Life hasn’t gone according to Judy’s plan.
So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she’s repeated the process every day since. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy’s old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. My advice: Start reading and don’t stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel." -Alice HoffmanĮntertainment Weekly * Cosmopolitan * USA Today * Real Simple * Parade * Buzzfeed * Glamour * PopSugarįrom bestselling author Laura Zigman, a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose life is unraveling and the well-intentioned but increasingly disastrous steps she takes to course-correct her relationships, her career, and her belief in herself “ Separation Anxiety is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.
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