Take My Husband, Ellen Meister
Take My Husband, Ellen Meister
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Take My Husband

Author: Ellen Meister

Narrator: Stacey Glemboski

Unabridged: 11 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/30/2022


Synopsis

"A page-turner with heart—and much needed laughs.” - Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You 

Only one thing stands in the way of Laurel Applebaum's happiness…Doug Applebaum.

In this darkly comic novel about a wife whose rope is so frayed it's about to snap, Laurel gets a call that her husband has been in an accident. She imagines the worst. But as she is on the way to the ER, another emotion seizes her. Relief. Doug's death could solve all her problems. No more catering to his incessant demands. Then there's the insurance money. Laurel's dreams seem so close. There's just one problem: Doug is very much alive. Now Laurel has to decide if she is going to do something about it.

Subversive, irreverent and surprisingly poignant, Take My Husband probes the deep corners of a marriage and emerges to find the light. For anyone who's spent a little too much time with a significant other and thought, One of us has got to go.

About Ellen Meister

Author of The Rooftop Party, Love Sold Separately, Dorothy Parker Drank Here, Farewell Dorothy Parker, and other novels, Ellen Meister is also an editor, book coach, and contributor to Long Island Woman. She has been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere, and has appeared on NPR. Ellen teaches creative writing at LIU Hutton House Lectures. More at ellenmeister.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Holly on August 06, 2022

Women's fiction/ Dark Comedy It is on the darker side. Laurel is the wife, who wouldn't mind if her husband Doug has an unfortunate accident. He has had a few "near misses" lately. Doug looks for sympathy from her, stating how he "could have died" and her inner thoughts are always "if only"........ Mi......more

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on September 02, 2022

Although this is marketed as a dark comedy, with wife Laurel plotting her husband's demise so that she can live her life the way she wants, I didn't feel like it was all that dark overall. As she is working her job at Trader Joe's, Laurel receives a phone call that her husband Douglas is unconscious......more

Goodreads review by Jonetta on August 31, 2022

the setup… Laurel Applebaum, a cashier at Trader Joe’s, gets a call from the hospital at the end of her shift, informing her that husband Doug has been in an accident. As she rushes to see him, she imagines the worst. But then…she begins imagining what the worst would actually look like for her now t......more

Goodreads review by Chandra on August 27, 2022

OK.... so, my fault for not reading the synopsis and assuming this was a thriller, which meant I kept waiting for something to happen but um, yeah, nothing actually ever really did. When I realize this is actually a contemporary dark comedy about a woman fantasizing about the death of her husband.........more

Goodreads review by Amy on August 27, 2022

2.5/5 This was such an odd read for me and I usually do ok with odd but I struggled with this one. Not only was it strange, it was also dark and that’s a weird thing for me to not enjoy. I like my thrillers dark and am normally not bothered by much but this was such a weird book that it bothered me.......more