{"product_id":"9780743436700","title":"Second Draft of My Life : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSecond Draft of My Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Sara Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty-two years and five books into her life, Charlotte Dearborn abandons her noncommittal boyfriend and her sinking-ship writing career, and becomes an elementary school teacher. Sure, she's giving up her dream of being a famous novelist, but in exchange she'll find a stable income, job satisfaction, and maybe even love. At least that's how it'd work if she were a character in one of her novels. In real life, she's busy coping with twenty yelling first-graders, a teacher's lounge full of nasty coworkers, and a series of romantic misadventures that fall far, far short of the real thing. \u003cbr\u003e Charlotte's struggle to navigate the waters of a new career, a new single life, and the loss of her identity as a writer make \u003ci\u003eSecond Draft of My Life\u003c\/i\u003e a funny, compulsively readable gem. From an author \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e applauded as \"very, very good on the business of falling in and out of love,\" it is part romantic comedy, part manual for living, and wholly triumphant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e Witty and bittersweet....Lewis writes with a companionable ease....Flashes of humor shine throughout the novel, at times reaching drop-the-book-while-laughing brilliance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e There is something honest and sweet that just works here, something so straightforward and hopeful and true that it cancels out any criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780743436700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40590631960782,"sku":"9780743436700","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_abc7e556-7a6b-4f29-9397-51d0140634a8.jpg?v=1637740007","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780743436700","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}