num_pages: 304
description: Bea and Awilda have been best friends from the moment Awilda threw her fourteen year-old self across Beas twin-sized bed as if they had known each other forever. Bubbly adventurous Awilda taught sheltered shy Bea how to dress wear her hair and what to do with boys. She even introduced Bea to her husband Lonnie in college who pledged to take good care of her for the rest of their lives. But philanderer Lonnie breaks that promise over and over again leaving Bea to wrestle with her self-esteem and long time secret addiction. Recently Lonnie has plopped the family in a New Jersey upper class suburb which lacks the diversity that Bea craves but has the school district and zip code envy that Lonnie wants. The demands of carrying a third child and fitting into this new environment while pretending that her husband is not cheating on her again is more than she can handle. And just when she thinks things cant get any worst the ultimate deception snaps the little thread that was holding her life together and all comes tumbling down.
language: English
title: And Then There Was Me
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books