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Highlights
- **#1 Amazon Bestseller** "What a fantastic book...like reading a mystery, racing to see what happens...and then finding clarity and the triumph of the ending.
- Author(s): Virginia DeLuca
- 266 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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About the Book
Sometimes, we know the least about those we love the most. When Virginia DeLuca's sixty-year-old husband walked out saying he wanted babies, everyone had a theory. He already knocked someone up. Nervous breakdown. Brain tumor.
Book Synopsis
**#1 Amazon Bestseller**
"What a fantastic book...like reading a mystery, racing to see what happens...and then finding clarity and the triumph of the ending."
- ABIGAIL THOMAS, New York Times bestselling author of A Three Dog Life
Sometimes, we know the least about those we love the most.
It took less than an hour for an old life to end and a new one to begin. When Virginia DeLuca's sixty-year-old husband abruptly walked out on their serene and happy-even joyful-marriage, proclaiming a sudden desire to have babies, everyone had a theory. He already knocked someone up. Nervous breakdown. Brain tumor.
After DeLuca met her husband, she learned that it was possible for her to love with abandon and entwine her life with this caring and compassionate man. But fourteen years later, she was only left with the mystery of the ending.
DeLuca, a psychotherapist, spent decades helping clients cope with sudden losses and dramatic changes-and now it's happened to her. Now, she must hunt to find the truth of her own story.
In the tradition of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets is an unflinching exploration of love and relationships from a woman who ultimately found that life can expand in unanticipated ways.
Review Quotes
**#1 Amazon Bestseller**
"DeLuca's memoir blends brilliance, raw emotion, humor, and extraordinary insight...providing both page-turning 'gotta know' and deeply rewarding conclusions."-Randy Susan Meyers, international bestselling author of The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone
"DeLuca's memoir is gripping and emotionally stirring as it weaves together grief, laughter, outrage, and redemption. There are no simple villains and victims here, but full people."-Orna Guralnik, psychologist, psychoanalyst, and star of hit Showtime series Couples Therapy
"Reading Ginny Deluca is like sitting across from your funniest, wisest friend over coffee. Her story of late life love and loss is layered and rich, and endlessly interesting."-Alysia Abbot, author of the acclaimed memoir Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
"This intimate, vulnerable memoir is an absolute pleasure to read, by turns hilarious, frank, and
full of wisdom, making it difficult to put down."-Maya Shanbhag Lang, author of acclaimed memoir What We Carry
"I could not put this book down. Buy one for yourself, and another one for your best friend."-Sarah Ruhl, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, playwright, and author of the memoir Smile: The Story of a Face
"A therapist's hilarious, yet wise perspective and must-read for anyone navigating betrayal." -Karen Kirsten, internationally bestselling author of Irena's Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival
"It's strangely heartwarming to realize that even sexagenarians can be this chaotic."-Vulture, New York Magazine
