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- English
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I Like You Just Fine When You're Not Around
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USA Today bestseller "I was intrigued by the strength of the main character, Tig Monahan, whose life begins to unravel as she comes to terms with her mother's advancing Alzheimer's. Though Tig makes mistake after mistake, she never gives up. As the chapters flew by, I laughed, I cried, I smiled. And when I turned the last page. I found myself feeling proud of Tig and looking up to her unwavering hope and strength of spirit." -- First for Women "It's not enough that Ann Garvin is hilarious. Then she has to go ahead and be compassionate and wise about the hopeful car-wreck that is most of humanity..." --Michelle Wildgen, author of You're Not You and Bread and Butter Everything is falling apart in psychologist Tig Monahan's life. Her mother's dementia is wearing her out; her boyfriend takes off for Hawaii without her; and her sister inexplicably disappears, leaving her newborn behind. When a therapy session goes horribly wrong, Tig finds herself unemployed and part of the sandwich generation trying to take care of everyone and failing miserably. Just when she thinks she can redefine herself on the radio as an arbiter of fairness, she discovers a family secret that nobody saw coming. It will take everything plus a sense of humor to see her way clear to a better life, but none of that will happen if she can't let go of her past.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Synopsis
- Dedication
- Chapter One: Horn Broken, Look for Finger
- Chapter Two: Lipstick and Cigarettes
- Chapter Three: Runners Run
- Chapter Four: An Inconvenient Truth
- Chapter Five: Pain for Your Troubles
- Chapter Six: No Such Thing As Fair
- Chapter Seven: Beautiful Euthanasic Precision
- Chapter Eight: Big Yellow Taxi
- Chapter Nine: I Like You Just Fine
- Chapter Ten: Is That Fair?
- Chapter Eleven: Stoke That Furnace, Sparky
- Chapter Twelve: Stray Dog List
- Chapter Thirteen: Splash Some Water on Your Face and Get on with Your Life
- Chapter Fourteen: Stage Fright
- Chapter Fifteen: I Have the Lethargy
- Chapter Sixteen: Space-Shuttle Relationship Conditions
- Chapter Seventeen: Consider-It-All
- Chapter Eighteen: Life Is Lame
- Chapter Nineteen: Timeâs Fun When Youâre Having Flies
- Chapter Twenty: Wrestling Intruders
- Chapter Twenty-One: I Like You Just Fine When Youâre Not Around
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Worry Is What You Do When Thereâs Nothing to Be Done
- Chapter Twenty-Three: A Little Night Music
- Chapter Twenty-Four: His Mistake
- Chapter Twenty-Five: There Now
- Chapter Twenty-Six: Time Will Tell
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Something to Know
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Almost-Win, Almost-Lose
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Hope House
- Chapter Thirty: Vampires, Lottery Winners, and Soulmates
- Chapter Thirty-One: The Moon in Love with the Sun
- Acknowledgments
- âThe Optimistâs Guide to Letting Goâ Excerpt
- About the Author
- Copyright