Every Other Wednesday, Susan Kietzman
Every Other Wednesday, Susan Kietzman
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Every Other Wednesday

Author: Susan Kietzman

Narrator: C.S.E. Cooney

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/25/2017

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women


Synopsis

For years, Ellie, Alice, and Joan enjoyed a casual friendship while volunteering at their children's Connecticut high school. Now, with those children grown and gone to college, a local tragedy brings the three into contact again. But what begins as a catch-up lunch soon moves beyond small talk to the struggles of this next stage of life.

Joan Howard has spent thirty years of marriage doing what's expected of Howard women: shopping, dressing well, and keeping a beautiful home. Unfulfilled, her boredom and emptiness eventually find a secret outlet at the local casino. Meanwhile, Ellie's efforts to expand her accounting business lead to a new friendship that clashes with her family's traditional worldview. And Alice, feeling increasingly distant from her husband, and alienated from her once fit body, takes up running again. But a terrifying ordeal shatters her confidence and spurs a decision that will affect all three women in different ways.

Over the course of an eventful year, Ellie, Alice, and Joan will meet every other Wednesday to talk, plan—and find the freedom, and the courage, to redefine themselves.

About Susan Kietzman

Susan Kietzman grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut. She went to Connecticut College, where her mother, aunt, and grandmother went before her. After graduation, she worked in Manhattan just long enough to realize that she felt more at home in the country than in the city. This conviction did not prevent her from going to journalism school at Boston University. Kietzman next moved to Mystic, Connecticut, where she worked at a weekly and then a daily newspaper. Along the way, she met and married Ted and had three sons.

The family spent time in Aurora, Ontario, and then moved to Midland, Michigan, where Kietzman wrote fiction in the early morning, taught English composition at a community college, and worked for various public relations firms, creating content for corporate clients. When the family moved back to Connecticut, she continued teaching community college students and started writing grants for Mystic Seaport. She has since left the classroom, but Kietzman continues to fundraise for the Museum.

She spends her free time enjoying the outdoors-walking, hiking, biking-and reading good fiction by a fireplace fire.


Reviews

Goodreads review by TWK on March 20, 2017

Well paced, well-crafted, and genuine novel of three women exploring the "second half" of life. The characters are likable, the dialogue is realistic, and the issues discussed are contemporary. An excellent read for men who have relationships with women – meaning nearly every man - because of the ge......more

Goodreads review by Peggy on March 27, 2017

Brought together by a tragic event, three women, casual and fringe acquaintances, forge a situational friendship. Empty nesters, and women over the age of 45, these three women, Alice, Joan and Ellie, are each going through maturational and emotional changes in their lives. From substance and gamblin......more

Goodreads review by HeathB on April 26, 2017

This is a story about three women whose children have grown and left home and how they try to navigate and define this new chapter in life. It deals with some current topics in a sensitive and balanced way. An enjoyable page turner with some unexpected storylines! I would recommend it!......more

Goodreads review by Kate on April 01, 2017

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book! I absolutely loved this book. Many books are written in and set in this current time but this book was so well rooted in it. Odd comments about politics, current events especially the ongoing argument about gun control in the USA since Sandy......more

Goodreads review by Robin on April 03, 2017

After winning a contest through another book site, I was thrilled when the publisher offered me another book as an advanced reader's copy. The topic seemed interesting, and I gave it a try as my first experience. The story begins after a school shooting, when 3 women who are casual acquaintances mee......more