{"product_id":"9780345443120","title":"A False Sense of Well Being: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Braselton’s confident first novel is [a] depiction of love on the rocks in the New South that combines small town charm with major league angst. . . . A down-home Proustian recherché search . . . [An] entertaining, rueful account of an apparently ‘normal’ marriage.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e–Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Simply extraordinary. [This novel] has the wit and modern comedy of Nora Ephron and the literary force of Flannery O’Connor.”\u003cbr\u003e–KAYE GIBBONS\u003cbr\u003e Author of \u003ci\u003eEllen Foster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox has a comfortable life in Glenville, Georgia, with the most responsible husband in the world. But after the storybook romance, “happily ever after” never came. Now Jessie is left to wonder: Why can’t she stop picturing herself as the perfect grieving widow? As Jessie dives headlong into her midlife crisis, she is joined by a colorful cast of eccentrics. There’s her best friend Donna, who is having a wild adulterous affair with a younger man; Wanda McNabb, the sweet-natured grandmother who is charged with killing her husband; Jessie’s younger sister Ellen, who was born to be a guest on \u003ci\u003eJerry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpringer\u003c\/i\u003e; their mother, who persistently crosses the dirty words out of library books; and of course the stuffed green headless duck. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a trip home to the small town of her childhood raises more questions than it answers, Jessie is forced to face the startling truth head-on–and confront the tragedy that has shadowed her heart and shaken her faith in love . . . and the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010819440880,"sku":"9780345443120","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345443120_p0.jpg?v=1763687451","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345443120","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}