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Once Upon A Nervous Breakdown

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Jennifer Costas is a different kind of "Desperate Housewife." The 36 year old is divorced from her 5 year old son's father, Mario, who came out as a gay man. Jennifer is balancing raising her son with her high pressure position in human resources for a pretigious lawfirm, trips of over an hour to help her aging "old world" Columbian mother (who answers her phone "I'm not dead" and urges her to reconcile with her ex), putting up her old college roommate (a diehard feminist and environmental activist who came for a visit and hasn't left, camping out in her basement, and encouraging her son to decline gender roles by playing with dolls), and dealing with a pushy neighbor who wants her help to cheat on her husband. The first date she goes out in since the divorce turns out to be to see her ex-husband in a charity drag show, after which he tells her that he may be late with the child support check because he is investing in a bar-restaurant called "Gonads" with hunky waiters wearing speedos! As her mother's health rapidly declines, her son "acts out" at school, she is being considered for a promotion at work, and further dating attempts prove to be disasters, Jennifer wonders if her life will ever be simple again.

Talented author Patrick Sanchez's latest "chick lit" book is one anyone will find hysterically funny as well as warm and sweet. A perfect escape from your own crazy life! Five stars out of five.

Once Upon A Nervous Breakdown is a warm, sweet entertainment, at once funny and touching, and stressed-out but loving single mom Jennifer is a welcome change from the Prada-wearing, calorie-obsessed protagonists of other chick-lit books. How refreshing to find a heroine in contemporary women's fiction who isn't obsessed with clothes or consumed with the size of her rear end. Instead, Jennifer is devoted to her elderly, ailing mother and her young son, and devastated when the husband she loves comes out as a gay caballero. How does she cope? Read this book and find out.

Not a hilarious book, but not a total heart breaker either. The main character has a refreshingly upbeat attitude, and it can't hurt to let it rub off! Not one second of this story isn't realistic... this stuff could happen to any of us.

This book was so funny! I think what made it so funny was that it was so realistic. So many women can relate to things that happened in this book. This was the first book that I read by this author, and I'm going to order more of his books to enjoy and share with my friends and sisters!

This book came at a time when I really, really needed some laughs. And boy, did it deliver!!!! My problems couldn't compare with a husband who comes out as being gay, a mother who is losing it and friends that make you wonder if enemies wouldn't be better to hang with.

So, if life sucks, read "Once Upon . . ." and laugh till it hurts!

ENJOY!!