dozen nonfiction books including Tripping the Prom Queen and Toxic Friends.She lives in New York City and teaches gender studies in the Writing Department at Marymount Manhattan College.
Barash applied the Page 69 Test to A Palm Beach Wife and reported the following:
Page 69 in my novel is representative of one aspect of the book - the tension between mothers and daughters, and the constant desire for mothers to protect their daughters. The book is about other story lines as well - the idea that wives hold the bar so high and that being a wife is tricky, almost a test of one's spirit and core values. For my heroine, Faith Harrison, in A Palm Beach Wife, there is proof of her hard work as a mother, wife and business woman in Palm Beach. But once her husband tanks - which happens by page 12 in the book, she has to reevaluate her entire life. She has to make a decision - does she try to save him and her family and at what cost to herself? Also this is a book about the secrets women keep - and how they lie for the cause. It is a story about female survival and how a place informs us - shapes us. What is the price of escape and what is the price of belonging.Visit Susan Shapiro Barash's website.
My Book, The Movie: A Palm Beach Wife.
--Marshal Zeringue
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