"Food and love and loss and resilience . . . are Hawley's recipe for a slyly entertaining and heartening novel" (Daniel Menaker, author of The Treatment).

Abigail is sure the only thing standing between her and happiness is the weight she gained along with her beloved new baby. Until she instantly loses 170 pounds of husband.

When Thad declares that "this whole marriage thing" is no longer working (after commenting...

Clare Wilson is starting over. She's had it with her marriage to a charming serial cheater. Even her own son thinks she's given his father too many chances. With the support of her sisters, Maggie and Sarah, she's ready to move on. Facing her fortieth birthday, Clare is finally feeling the rush of unadulterated freedom. But when a near-fatal car accident lands Clare in the hospital, her life takes another detour. While recovering, Clare realizes she...

Bess Gray is stunned to learn that the man she is about to marry has eight ex-wives. So she sets out on a cross-country journey to meet them--a ride that will open her eyes to who she is and what she truly wants in life.

Donna's ex-husband vanishes with her little boy and girl and she is left with an empty life. Then she begins a terror-filled quest to find her children that takes her beyond the law.

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Flight Patterns comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems ... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It's not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren't helped by an anonymous local blog that dishes about the scandalous...

When her husband of twenty-four years unexpectedly divorces her, a devastated Paris Armstrong struggles to overcome a broken heart and the disappointment of single life.

"Samantha's husband has left her and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's on his credit card, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates but a more pressing problem is money."--Jacket.

Fast-paced, warm, and laugh-out-loud funny, What Comes After Crazy chronicles a quest for normalcy that nearly drives a woman nuts.
Maz Lombard craves a nice, quiet life—and who can blame her? Having grown up as the daughter of Madame Lucille, “Fortune Teller to the Stars,” she spent her Southern childhood traveling from town to town, wondering which of the many men her mother brought home would become her next stepfather...

Divorcée Theresa Osborne, on a vacation at the seaside, finds a love message in a bottle and becomes obsessed with learning the story behind the note.

When Camille Taylor's husband dies unexpectedly, the carefully constructed life she worked so hard to build in Washington, DC, shatters. After struggling for almost a year, she packs up her daughter, and heads for the Alabama coast where she grew up. The salt air and slow rhythms of the coast soothe Camille's spirit, but things have changed in her hometown. Runoff from an abandoned development site is polluting the water and local fisherman Mack Phillips...