Em's Awful Good Fortune
Marcie Maxfield
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Paris. Tokyo. Shanghai. Seoul. Em's Awful Good Fortune is part global romp, part dysfunctional marriage. Em is not simply married-it's more like she's handcuffed to her husband's international career. Sure, they might be velvet cuffs, but still . . . cuffed. What else can she do but stomp her way through global capitals in search of her own identity?
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
She Writes Press
Publish Date
August 03, 2021
Pages
240
Dimensions
5.3 X 8.4 X 0.8 inches | 0.75 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781647421427
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About the Author
Marcie Maxfield's voice is fierce, authentic, and personal. Her debut novel, Em's Awful Good Fortune, is based on her experiences living overseas as a tagalong wife. Her play Girls Together Always--a collection of coming-of-age stories about "growing up girl"--won the ENCORE! Producer's Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Maxfield lives in Los Angeles, where she is a teen mentor and teaches writing for a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering girls through creativity. She is married with two kids, a French bulldog, and two rescue cats named Hunky and Dory. They live in Los Angeles, CA.
Reviews
2022 IAN Book of the Year Winner in Women's Fiction 2022 NYC Big Book Awards Winner in Contemporary Novel 2022 NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite in Audiobook Fiction
2022 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Silver Medal Winner in Fiction (Realistic)
2022 Firebird Book Awards First Place Winner in Summer/Beach Read and Marriage 2022 Firebird Book Awards Second Place Winner in Contemporary Fiction, Women's Issues, and Humor
2022 16th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Marriage 2022 International Book Awards Finalist in Humor/Comedy/Satire
2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Women's Issues (Non-Fiction)
2022 Book Excellence Awards Finalist in Fiction 2022 Independent Press Awards Winner in Contemporary Novel 2021 American Fiction Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction 2021 Foreword Indie Silver Winner in Humor 2021 Hollywood Book Festival Honorary Mention in General Fiction
"Em's Awful Good Fortune takes its reader across the world and
deep into the heart of its trapped, privileged, suffering, and,
ultimately, invincible narrator. Equally funny and brutal, this novel
breathes vivid life into a much maligned and little understood
"type"-the expat wife. Maxfield poured her heart into the writing, and
it shows: the pages crackle." --Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown and This Is How You Lose Her "Maxfield calls Em's problems those of 'tagalong wife privilege, ' but
the novel isn't just about that; there's something here that's more
universal, which women in different circumstances are sure to find
familiar: the notion of abandoning the care of one's own health and
happiness in the name of love of family and marriage." --Kirkus Reviews "Em's Awful Good Fortune is a travelogue through the heart and
mind of a woman torn between her marriage to her globetrotting husband
and loyalty to herself. With unsentimental humor and deep humanity,
Marcie Maxfield writes with brutal grace about the journey to find
the self you didn't know you'd lost. Oh, and this isn't chick lit. This
is lit." --Alan Watt, LA Times best-selling author of Diamond Dogs and The 90-Day Novel
writing voice so unique it will knock your socks off. This breathless
story of a woman's attempt at balancing love with self-love as she
navigates the few joys and many pitfalls of the tagalong life will keep
you reading until the wee hours, and might even change the way you view
marriage, travel, and feminism." --Corine Gantz, author of Hidden in Paris and the trilogy The Curator of Broken Things. "Em's Awful Good Fortune brilliantly skewers the rarified life of
the overly precious 'tagalong' expat life. The novel reads like your
best friend's blisteringly funny diary, especially if your best friend
happens to be a stand-up comic with a knife̵
2022 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Silver Medal Winner in Fiction (Realistic)
2022 Firebird Book Awards First Place Winner in Summer/Beach Read and Marriage 2022 Firebird Book Awards Second Place Winner in Contemporary Fiction, Women's Issues, and Humor
2022 16th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Marriage 2022 International Book Awards Finalist in Humor/Comedy/Satire
2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Women's Issues (Non-Fiction)
2022 Book Excellence Awards Finalist in Fiction 2022 Independent Press Awards Winner in Contemporary Novel 2021 American Fiction Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction 2021 Foreword Indie Silver Winner in Humor 2021 Hollywood Book Festival Honorary Mention in General Fiction
"Em's Awful Good Fortune takes its reader across the world and
deep into the heart of its trapped, privileged, suffering, and,
ultimately, invincible narrator. Equally funny and brutal, this novel
breathes vivid life into a much maligned and little understood
"type"-the expat wife. Maxfield poured her heart into the writing, and
it shows: the pages crackle." --Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown and This Is How You Lose Her "Maxfield calls Em's problems those of 'tagalong wife privilege, ' but
the novel isn't just about that; there's something here that's more
universal, which women in different circumstances are sure to find
familiar: the notion of abandoning the care of one's own health and
happiness in the name of love of family and marriage." --Kirkus Reviews "Em's Awful Good Fortune is a travelogue through the heart and
mind of a woman torn between her marriage to her globetrotting husband
and loyalty to herself. With unsentimental humor and deep humanity,
Marcie Maxfield writes with brutal grace about the journey to find
the self you didn't know you'd lost. Oh, and this isn't chick lit. This
is lit." --Alan Watt, LA Times best-selling author of Diamond Dogs and The 90-Day Novel
"A
fast-paced, blink-and-you'll-miss-it whirlwind of a book capturing the
good, the bad, and the ugly of being a 'tagalong' expat wife. Marcie
Maxfield will take you on a global ride--and personal journey--in this
funny, poignant novel."
writing voice so unique it will knock your socks off. This breathless
story of a woman's attempt at balancing love with self-love as she
navigates the few joys and many pitfalls of the tagalong life will keep
you reading until the wee hours, and might even change the way you view
marriage, travel, and feminism." --Corine Gantz, author of Hidden in Paris and the trilogy The Curator of Broken Things. "Em's Awful Good Fortune brilliantly skewers the rarified life of
the overly precious 'tagalong' expat life. The novel reads like your
best friend's blisteringly funny diary, especially if your best friend
happens to be a stand-up comic with a knife̵
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