On a miserable January morning, Sarah is sitting on a plane to Tenerife, Spainwithout her husband or her childrenfor a week-long vacation. At the age of thirty, shes just realized that shes very angry with her life, her choices, and her familyand that shes becoming a bitter bitch. For plane reading, she carries a copy of Erica Jongs Fear of Flying and suddenly wishes it were 1975 instead of 2005although she wonders how things have gotten so bad that all she craves is a full nights sleep instead of a zipless f**k.
Sarah never intended for things to turn out the way they have: She just dreamed of love like everyone else. But now shes sitting on the plane, thinking about all the injustices shes suffered. Thinking about how thoroughly fooled she was by the storybook promise of lovethe one that makes us want to start a family. Thinking about all the women she knows who, like her, were drained of all their energy and sentenced to a family prisonan inheritance passed down directly from generation to generation, from her restless mothers eczema-covered dishpan hands to her own nervous over-achiever complex.
Angry and candid, Bitter Bitch is a wild, uncompromising novel, at the heart of which is one of the most important womens issues: How can we ever have an egalitarian society when we cant even live in equality with those we love?
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.