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Blow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason / Gina Frangello. by Frangello, Gina. Counterpoint Press, 2021. Call #: 813.6 F827b Subjects Frangello, Gina.   Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.   Authors, American -- 21st century -- Family relationships.   Marriage -- United States.   Adultery -- United States.   Cancer -- Patients -- United States. ISBN:  9781640093164 (hc) Edition:  1st hardcover ed. Description:  320 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her comfortable but emotionally stagnant marriage. Falling into a passionate affair with a writer/musician, Gina begins living a shocking double life while continuing to outwardly project the image of having a 'perfect family.' As her parallel worlds begin to dangerously intersect, she makes the risky choice to leave her marriage and security in order to take a chance at finally becoming fully herself, midlife. However, when only months into her separation, Gina is diagnosed with breast cancer, her father dies, her divorce grows increasingly contentious and menacing, and her lover falls into a deep clinical depression, an inevitable breaking point approaches, revealing the irrevocable stakes of giving up everything for love, as well as what it means to be a woman in the contemporary American landscape. Examining pivotal moments in a complex family system about to implode, Blow Your House Down is about what happens when a woman who has been very good at playing all the roles society expects of her suddenly refuses to continue being the person her family and friends think they know."--Publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Creative nonfiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 813.6 F827b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 813.6 F827b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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