Skipping a Beat
  • Published:
    Mar-2011
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    352
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From the author of the acclaimed The Opposite of Me, a poignant, witty novel about marriage, forgiveness, and the choices that give shape -- and limits -- to our lives.

What would you do if your husband suddenly wanted to rewrite all of the rules of your relationship? This is the question at the heart of Skipping a Beat, Pekkanen's thought-provoking second book.

From the outside, Julia and Michael seem to have it all. Both products of difficult childhoods in rural West Virginia -- where they were simply Julie and Mike -- they become high school sweethearts and fall in love. Shortly after graduation, they flee their small town to start afresh. Now thirty-somethings, they are living a rarified life in their multi-million-dollar, Washington D.C. home. Julia is a highly sought-after party planner, while Michael has just sold his wildly successful flavored water company for $70 million.

But one day, Michael collapses in his office. Four minutes and eight seconds after his cardiac arrest, a portable defibrillator jump-starts his heart. But in those lost minutes he becomes a different man. Money is meaningless to him - and he wants to give it all away. Julia, who sees bits of her life reflected in scenes from the world's great operas, is now facing with a choice she never anticipated. Should she should walk away from the man she once adored -- but who truthfully became a stranger to her long before this pronouncement - or give in to her husband's pleas for a second chance and a promise of a poorer but happier life?

As wry and engaging as her debut, but with quiet depth and newfound maturity, Skipping a Beat is an unforgettable portrait of a marriage whose glamorous surface belies the complications and betrayals beneath.
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    • Washington Square Press
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0594234328
    • ISBN13: 9780594234326
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    • Feb-2011
    • Washington Square Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1451609825
    • ISBN13: 9781451609820
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    • Feb-2011
    • Atria
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1451609833
    • ISBN13: 9781451609837
    •  
    • Feb-2011
    • Washington Square Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0594467195
    • ISBN13: 9780594467199
    •  
    • Feb-2011
    • Washington Square Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0594171008
    • ISBN13: 9780594171003
    •  
    • Aug-2011
    • Simon & Schuster (Australia)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0731815270
    • ISBN13: 9780731815272
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    • Dec-2013
    • Simon & Schuster (Australia)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0731815181
    • ISBN13: 9780731815180



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