Carpool Confidential (41 page)
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Authors: Jessica Benson
I looked at him, the man I'd loved for so many years, on one knee, his nose bandaged, face battered, thought of the boys, how empty the apartment was suddenly without M.A., about the blog and Jamie and the past eight months, last night. “Define hope,” I said.
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writer and sometimes-blogger Cassie Martin's first book,
Carpool Confidential
, the story of the first year following her move from Manhattan to suburban Connecticut in the wake of the surprise dissolution of her marriage (chronicled in the blog of the same name at NYMetro.com), to Megan McKeever at Downtown Press, in a pre-empt (reportedly for six figures), by Laura Langlie of the Laura Langlie Agency. The book takes on the similarities between New York private-school PTA moms and Connecticut public school PTA moms, finding new love, having difficulty giving up the old, helping her children through a traumatic year, the perils of inheriting a part-time teenager, having a soon-to-be-ex-mother-inlaw who is shacked up with a private investigator thirty years her junior, a mother who has just run away with the husband of a woman in
her
husband's 12 Step Sexaholics Anonymous program, learning to garden, and getting a new puppy.