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Single in Suburbia [Mass Market Paperback]

Wendy Wax

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29 Sep 2006
Amanda’s husband has just traded her in for an affair with a teenybopper. Brooke is a trophy wife collecting dust. And Candace (Don’t call me Candy) has had too many husbands and too little love. What do these three unlikely accomplices have in common besides a Little League team called the Mudhens? A plot to reclaim a little r-e-s-p-e-c-t. And they’re going to do it with a mop and a bucket.

Maid for You starts as a way for Amanda to make enough money to keep the roof over her kids’ heads after her husband splits for his midlife crisis. But when Candace and Brooke join her, it becomes much more. Donning disguises, they enter the homes of those who once spurned them and discover more than just clutter in the closets of their neighbors’ otherwise tidy lives. But when Amanda takes on the job of cleaning the home of the town’s most eligible hunk, someone decides to do her dirty. Now Amanda, Brooke, and Candace are on a mission to prove that being single in suburbia isn’t a crime–even if it does lead to some irresistible temptations….

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell (29 Sep 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553588974
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553588972
  • Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 2.7 x 17.5 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,832,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh out Loud 7 Sep 2011
By Eliabeth Hawthorne - Published on Amazon.com
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Nothing is more fun and yet concerning to those watching me than when I laugh and sob at the same time. Wendy Wax accomplished this in her book Single in Suburbia. It was a hilarious description of a heart wrenching expression that brought on this fit of giggles and tears. Single in Suburbia had me chuckling almost every chapter; pair that with the character Amanda Sheridan who really knows how to put a cheating husband in his place, and you've got a book I could hardly put down.

Single in Suburbia follows jilted wife Amanda, replacement wife Brooke, and divorcee Candace as they help Amanda keep her house after her husband lost everything. In order to keep Amanda's family afloat, they start Maid For You, a cleaning service specializing English speaking French maids when Amanda discovers that being a stay at home mom does not dazzle prospective employers. She, Brook, and Candace dress in wigs and gaudy make-up as they clean, snoop, and realize that no family is as perfect as it seems.

Single in Suburbia is an example of how disaster can have positive ripples and turmoil shows us who our real friends are. The main characters are witty, real, and nothing in their life is perfect. Each of them struggles with their own jaded past as they battle with who they were and who they want to be.

As for Amanda's husband...

While I love writing villians that you feel sorry for, I don't like reading about them. I'm fickle like that. I want to hate them, I want to jump around gleefully when something bad happens to them, especially if they brought it on themselves, but I also think that feeling sorry for the bad guy is more realistic and harder to accomplish, so I hate a love-hate relationship with the husband character (he does not deserve to be named).
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Jane Austen's Society in Suburbia? 8 July 2006
By S. Salazar - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I picked this up as a quickie at the grocery store to sandwich in between 2 heavy reads. I was pleasantly suprised!

Fully expecting a bodice-ripper, I found laugh-out-loud lines, fully-developed characters and social insight. The book reminded me that for all of our media-savvy and technology taht we have not deviated that far from the world of Jane Austen.

High society in the suburbs turns balls into baseball fields and servants into maids, Wendy Wax reveals taht suburbia has all the earmarks of British society.

Although the plot was a bit predictable, many of the scenes were quite touching. And each of the main characters' moral dilemmas shot the book with a sparkle of self-awareness.

In the end, Wendy Wax shows that soccer moms are like all mothers; women taking care of those they love and teaching their kids how to love, hope and faith in the future.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Light-hearted, fun read! 2 July 2006
By Erica L. - Published on Amazon.com
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I bought this book just wanting something "mindless" to read. I was very pleasantly surprised at what a great read it was. I read it in less than 24 hours and would purchase a book by this author again.
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