Good in a Crisis: A Memoir
Anesthesiologist Overton appears to be very good in a crisis. She is certainly skilled at crafting a diverting memoir. But she is not good at identifying a good man. Still, a person can’t be good at everything. She is also a respected physician who has, by her own account, raised two well-adjusted daughters and who keeps her middle-aged body fit via bicycling. However, when it comes to selecting male companionship, she proves again and again and, uh, again that her radar or sonar or common sense is off-line, down due to a disconnect between hope and reality. To help overcome the negative effects of a 20-year marriage that ended in a bitter divorce, Overton began journaling. She chronicled not just the I’ll-get-you-before-you-get-me revelations about her philandering ex but also her several less-than-successful experiences with cyberdating and vacation romance. Even though twenty-first-century America asserts the opposite, it took her a very long time to get it through her head that a woman can be OK without a mate. --Donna Chavez