Description Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life--a handsome, intelligent, loving husband who was a professor; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house in their Midwestern college town; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism.
On the other hand, as Gillies herself says, it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away..
On the one hand, reading this book is like watching a train wreck.
It is a dizzyingly candid, compulsively readable, ultimately redemptive Story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life.
Far from a self-pitying diatribe, Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. "Happens Every day," said a friend.
Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons.
Suddenly, the life Isabel had made crumbled.
Description Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life--a handsome, intelligent, loving husband who was a professor; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house in their Midwestern college town; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism
