Separation Anxiety

From the bestselling author of Animal Husbandry

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Pub Date 3 Mar 2020 | Archive Date 16 Apr 2020

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‘As fierce as it is funny.’ – Alice Hoffman

‘As hilarious and painful as life itself.’ – Claire Messud

Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy’s old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she’s repeated the process every day since.

Life hasn’t gone according to Judy’s plan. Her career as a children’s book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive. Teddy, now a teenager, treats her with some combination of mortification and indifference. Her best friend is dying. And her husband, Gary, has become a pot-addled professional “snackologist” who she can’t afford to divorce. 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.

Wickedly funny and surprisingly tender, Separation Anxiety offers a frank portrait of the 'squeezed generation', examining the ebb and flow of life’s most important relationships. 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.

‘What a gem of a novel. Separation Anxiety is wickedly funny, heartrending, poignantly wise, and hopeful. The main character, Judy, is hilariously offbeat, yet very easy to identify with, honest and thoughtful, and I loved spending time with her.’ - Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife

‘Sometimes a book finds its way to you and you just know instantly that this is the book you need now. That’s how I feel about Separation Anxiety. I think it’s the book everyone needs right now. It is compassionate and funny, articulating with gentle humor the terrible things that we’re all grappling with. To steal a phrase from my daughter, it made me happy-cry.’ - Laura Lippman


‘As fierce as it is funny.’ – Alice Hoffman

‘As hilarious and painful as life itself.’ – Claire Messud

Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy’s old...


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ISBN 9781473579347
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PAGES 352

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