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    Trophy Life
    Trophy Life
    Trophy Life
    Audiobook10 hours

    Trophy Life

    Written by Lea Geller

    Narrated by Amy Landon

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A refreshingly honest, laugh-out-loud novel about losing the life you always wanted…and finding the life you were meant to have.

    For the last ten years, Agnes Parsons’s biggest challenge has been juggling yoga classes and lunch dates. Her Santa Monica house staff takes care of everything, leaving Agnes to focus on her trophy-wife responsibilities: look perfect, adore her older husband, and wear terribly expensive (if uncomfortable) underwear.

    When her husband disappears, leaving Agnes and their infant daughter with no money, no home, and no staff, she is forced to move across the country, where she lands a job teaching at an all-boys boarding school in the Bronx. So long, organic quinoa bowls and sunshine-filled California life. Hello, processed food, pest-infested house, and twelve-year-old-boy humor—all day, every day.

    But it’s in this place of second chances (and giant bugs), where Agnes is unexpectedly forced to take care of herself and her daughter, where she finds out the kind of woman she can be. Ultimately, she has to decide if she prefers the woman and mother she has become—or the trophy life she left behind.

    Authentic and sharply witty, Trophy Life is proof that granny panties and mom coats might not be the answer to everything; they’re simply comfortable (if slightly unattractive) reminders of what happens when one life ends…and real life begins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 9, 2019
    ISBN9781721337149
    Trophy Life
    Author

    Lea Geller

    Lea Geller is the author of Trophy Life. A recipient of the 2019 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College, she began her writing career by blogging about her adventures in the trenches of parenting. Lea lives in New York with her husband and children, for whom she frequently wakes up and makes several separate breakfasts. When Lea’s not writing and eavesdropping on her children, she can be found running, gardening, drinking diner coffee, and occasionally teaching middle school English. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Stanford Law School. You can find Lea at www.leageller.com.

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    • 3/5
      Alright if you have time to kill. Nothing more however
    • 2/5
      I hate the main character so much. What a sad wimp. Could not relate at all. I kept hoping that she would turn around and become a strong character but that really didn't happen.