Happily Ever After Divorce

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HAPPILY EVER AFTER DIVORCE
Notes of a Joyful Journey

Jessica Bram

“Divorce need not be the end of the world. Instead it can be the path to a life better than anyone could previously have imagined.”

With three young children, Jessica Bram, age 41, took a terrifying leap and found the courage to leave her unhappy marriage. She discovered that while divorce, like childbirth, can be hard and painful, a glorious new life can emerge on the other side. In her moving and often humorous memoir, HAPPILY EVER AFTER DIVORCE: NOTES OF A JOYFUL JOURNEY (HCI; April, 2009, $14.95), Bram shares not so much the pain of divorce, but the joy, healing, and second chance at happiness it can bring. She proves that divorce can be a positive solution when all else fails.

For anyone contemplating or undergoing divorce, reading HAPPILY EVER AFTER DIVORCE: NOTES OF A JOYFUL JOURNEY provides a new outlook for the transformation ahead. With startling openness, Bram shares her personal anecdotes – about panicked eating, financial transition, online dating rejection, carrying on a “secret affair” with her ex-mother-in-law, and having ‘coffee with the enemy’ – her ex-husband – to work out the details of their children’s lives.

Bram offers an upbeat account of how she not only survived divorce, but thrived in its aftermath. She discovered hidden talents that enabled her to earn a living, learned that humor goes a long way in getting through the tough times, and found that with hard work and the right attitude, co-parenting can be successful. Now, when friends ask her about the difference between her ex-husband’s lifestyle and her own, she tells them, “Yes, he ended up with most of the money. And I ended up rich.”

Jessica Bram is an essayist whose work has been published and syndicated in many national and regional newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Child Magazine, Women’s Journal, Sacramento Bee, Country Accents and Gannett Newspapers. Her essay, “Beauty Calls,” published in the New York Times Magazine’s HERS column, was widely syndicated and included in the Simon and Schuster college text, Writing and Reading Arguments: A Rhetoric and Reader. Bram is also an award-winning radio commentator who regularly records commentaries on the Fairfield County, Connecticut National Public Radio station WSHU during “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition.”