Easy Street: A Story of Redemption from Myself
Maggie Rowe
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Description
A moving and offbeat story of unlikely friendship, the cost of ambition, and what happens when the things you've always run away from show up on your doorstep. To most, Maggie Rowe appears to live on Easy Street. Her stylish home is in a fashionable Los Angeles neighborhood. She has a kind husband who makes her laugh. And after years of struggle, she is finally making a name for herself in Hollywood. But the agreeable, confident persona she presents to the world often feels like a deception to Maggie, who's long grappled with mental illness and feelings of inadequacy. Enter Joanna Hergert, a neurodiverse middle-aged woman who lives with her elderly mother. Maggie's husband, Jim, introduces her to the pair after meeting them at a local charbroiled chicken franchise. Over the next several years, she forms a friendship with Joanna and her mother--despite Joanna's robust romantic fixation on Jim. What begins as a mild curiosity soon blooms into a complicated and intimate friendship that will challenge Maggie to confront her mental health issues and the trade-offs she's made to live life on her own terms. Engrossing, moving, and wickedly funny, Easy Street is a midlife coming-of-age buddy comedy about embracing the strength of the families we fashion, finding peace with the choices we make, and, above all, learning to be compassionate with ourselves.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
Counterpoint LLC
Publish Date
January 25, 2022
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.2 X 0.9 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781640093799
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MAGGIE ROWE has written for television shows including Arrested Development and Flaked. For film, she penned the screenplay, with Andersen Gabrych, Bright Day: An Exposé of Hollywood's Fastest Growing New Religion. Rowe is the author of Sin Bravely: A Memoir of Spiritual Disobedience, an NPR Best Book of the Year.