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How I Made a Huge Mess of My Life: (or Couples Therapy with a Dead Man)
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About How I Made A Huge Mess Of My
Product Description Billie Best’s memoir is a provocative, at times hilarious, account of her midlife mistakes and misadventures, and how they build her strength as she copes with her soul mate turned cheating husband who wants his death to be performance art, his doppelganger mistress who wants to steal her identity, and the financial collapse of the farm she loves. An inspiring tale of a woman’s rites of passage from her 40s to her 60s when everything in her life changes.Most of the story takes place in the Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts where Best and her husband purchased a farm in 1998 as a second home after her success in the technology business. The book charts their course from high tech city people to low tech farm folk as it exposes the fissures in their marriage brought on by diverging visions for the future, her immersion into farming and his escape into an affair.Three months before his death he invites his until then secret mistress to spend the weekend with him and Best. It’s his goodbye present to himself and it doesn’t go well. Best’s emotional scars are permanent, triggering a cascade of rage, neurosis and obsessive-compulsive cleaning. It takes years for her to unravel the lies buried in their marriage. Then she discovers some forgotten secrets of her own.An illumination of a woman’s power in midlife, Best’s memoir is a gutsy saga of how a marriage breaks down after 30 years, what to do (and not to do) when your husband cheats on you, how to deal with a midlife crisis, how to plan your own funeral and die at home, how to move forward after becoming a widow, and the personal renaissance of downsizing and starting over — in short, this book is about how to age well. Review Billie is definitely an exquisite word smith. I really enjoyed her memoir. It was interesting, quirky, introspective, funny, at times hilarious! She has LIVED a fulfilling life and continues to contemplate her new life, by herself. Great book from a female perspective. -- Janet Balhan, Goodreads, March 31, 2020 A powerful memoir that explores relationships, infidelity, emotionalhealing and reinvention. I laughed and cried along with Billie as shetold her story. This book is beautifully written. I loved it. -- Kim,Goodreads, April 3, 2020 From the Author My memoir is about my midlife passage from my 40s to my 60s when everything in my life changed. I was coming into my power as a woman, with decades of experience and a track record of success, discovering my passion for a new career and driving myself toward my goals. Then my husband got sick and just before he died, he revealed his years long affair with another woman. The cognitive dissonance of those events crushed me. Telling my story was a way to sort out my conflicting experiences and re-integrate all the different parts of myself into a new woman. I was broken and now I'm whole again. Resilience is my superpower. What happened to me happens to many women. My book is a way of helping them build their resilience. About the Author Billie Best writes the blog Beyond 60 -- Loving Life, Staying Relevant at billiebest.com. She was born in 1954 in Illinois and spent most of her childhood in rural farm country. She became a city girl in 1972 when she moved to Chicago, then on to New York City and Boston where her career traversed waitressing, the music business, retail and marketing communications. In 1999 she moved back to the country and lived on a farm in Massachusetts until she took off for the city again and in 2017 landed in Portland, Oregon, where she began to write as if her life depended on it. Her first book, How I Made a Huge Mess of My Life (or Couples Therapy with a Dead Man) is an uplifting memoir about her midlife crisis published in 2020 by Widowspeak Publishing.
