Lauren Fox. (2007). Still Life with Husband. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Lauren Fox. 2007. Still Life With Husband. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Lauren Fox, Still Life With Husband. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.

Lauren Fox. Still Life With Husband. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.

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   • bioText: Lauren Fox earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota in 1998. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Utne, Seventeen, Glamour, and Salon. She lives in Milwaukee with her husband and daughter. Still Life with Husband is her first novel.
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Meet Emily Ross, thirty years old, married to her college sweetheart, and personal advocate for cake at breakfast time. Meet Emily's husband, Kevin, a sweet technical writer with a passion for small appliances and a teary weakness for Little Women. Enter David, a sexy young reporter with longish floppy hair and the kind of face Emily feels the weird impulse to lick. In this captivating novel of marriage and friendship, Lauren Fox explores the baffling human heart and the dangers of getting what you wish for.

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     "A delightful new voice in American fiction, a voice that instantly recalls the wry, knowing prose of Lorrie Moore crossed with the screwball talents of the cartoonist Roz Chast." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"Any woman who's ever found herself looking at her life and wondering how on earth she wound up there will relate to the characters in this funny, honest novel." --Jodi Picoult, author of Nineteen Minutes "Fox gives us an all-too-real glance into what most married people have at one time or another wondered about (if not acted upon): the thrill-ride of illicit love. Emily's first-person narrative may be laugh-out-loud funny, but it's also an honest, compassionate look at the heartbreak of misplaced intimacy." --Amy Woods Butler, St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Read Still Life with Husband for its funny, winning voice and an ending that could be debated by book clubs for months to come."

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     November 6, 2006
     Yes, it's an affair novel, but file this adroit but placid debut under chick lit for early marrieds—the ones who are not sure they want to be on the baby-house-'burbs track. At 30, Emily Ross is a Milwaukee freelance writer with a part-time job as assistant editor at a medical journal called Male Reproduction
     and a marriage to "steady, staid" Kevin, a technical writer she met in college. Kevin, "innocent and intolerable," wants a baby and a house. Emily is ambivalent and bored. A few pages in, Emily meets David Keller, a dark, good-looking writer/editor at the local alternative newspaper, and starts an affair. Things, as expected, do not go well, but Fox's voice is steady, moving easily between comedy and drama. Her emotionally literate delineation of character and relationship give the book texture, with Emily's relationship with her best friend, Meg, emerging as the book's most resonant. Fox draws just the right tension out of Emily's mix of honesty and self-delusion, reflection and romance, with an undercurrent of a sort of left-handed hope. For anyone who's lived through a relationship drama, though, Emily will have a decidedly entitled, gee-whiz quality that's hard to take.

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     January 1, 2007
     A little flirting is harmless, right? Even if you have been married for nine years to your college sweetheart, men and women can be friends. That's what Emily Ross keeps telling herself after she catches the eye of David Keller in a coffee shop. Of course, that morning she just happened to have left her wedding ring at home. Emily and her husband, Kevin, have been happily married, but the marriage has hit a bumpy patchhe wants to have kids and move to the suburbs. Emily isn't ready for kids and loves living in the city close to their favorite restaurants and shops. Her best friend, Meg, is pregnant, so Emily worries about losing her friend to the thrall of motherhood. When Emily exchanges emails with David, she deludes herself into thinking that this could lead to work (she's a freelancer) rather than an affair. With this satisfying debut novel, Fox has written a twist on the typical chick lit tale. The story looks at happiness vs. loyalty and reconsiders the adage, Be careful what you wish for. Recommended for public libraries.Robin Nesbitt, Columbus Metropolitan Lib., OH

     Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     November 15, 2006
     In Fox's debut novel about the constraints of marriage and the lure of infidelity, Emily Ross, married for nine years to the kind and decent Kevin, is feeling suffocated by her husband's desire to buy a house in the suburbs and start a family. When she meets a handsome newspaper editor in the local Starbucks, she's so busy cracking jokes, she forgets to mention one small detail--she's married. Two dates later, she finally admits her marital status, but, after expressing the requisite misgivings, the two engage in an intense affair. Then the lovers' remorse and guilt start to kick in, and Fox's narrative starts to drag as page after page is given over to the angst-ridden details. Fox covers familiar ground that has been done better by, for example, Tom Perrotta in " Little Children" (2004) and Lolly Winston in " Happiness Sold Separately" (2006). Still, there seems to be a strong demand for fiction dealing with the vicissitudes of marriage, and Fox has a particularly engaging sense of humor.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)

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