Review: A Side-Splitting Look at Life's Ups and Downs
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
Filled with chuckles, giggles, and guffaws, Ginny McMath's tale of the lives of six women dealing with loss and redemption is gratifying and uplifting.  McMath uses the five stages of grief, denial, anger, depression, bargaining and acceptance to illustrate her protagonists' first-person stories, and fill the reader with gentle understanding for our human condition. From an immigrant Pakistani woman whose husband adopts an age-old American custom of leaving his wife for a much younger woman, to an aging actress auditioning for the role written for her in her youth, women of all ages and culture will recognize themselves in these vignettes.Ultimately, McMath turns pain and heartbreak into humor and triumph.  Writing in the quirky style of Mindy Kaling, and with just as much insight into our modern culture, Broken Headbone is a perfect book club pick that will have your friends  pouring another glass of wine to laugh and compare notes well into the night.This is a keeper, and well worth a second (or third) read.