{"product_id":"her-isbn-9780375713224","title":"Her","description":"Elise meets Donald on a flight to Washington, D.C., where he teaches and she edits self-help books. He is dreamy: 6’6” with unflinching green eyes and a proclivity for speaking frankly. Incredibly, they fall in love, get engaged, and start discussing wedding invitations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then Elise meets \u003ci\u003eher—\u003c\/i\u003eAdrienne—Donald’s stunning, leggy ex-fiancée. Adrienne is newly single and planning a move to D.C. Cleavage-baring, half-French, and with a degree from Yale, she seduces men with one flick of her hair. Worst of all, she and Donald have remained “good friends” since they broke up. Convinced that Adrienne is out to win Donald back, Elise begins stalking both of them obsessively . . . and starts adding up clues to what looks like a brazen affair.“Delightfully frothy. . . . It’s a fun ride.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Zigman] has produced another book of the moment. . . . A fun read.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This is one rampaging hoot of a book, likely to strike a resounding chord. . . . The fun here is in the details.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003cb\u003eHer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis as addicting as Zigman’s previous work. . . Sharp, hilarious.” —\u003ci\u003eBookpage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A howl. . . . As scary as it is funny.” \u003ci\u003e—USA Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLaura Zigman is the author of \u003cb\u003eAnimal Husbandry\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eDating Big Bird\u003c\/b\u003e. She spent ten years working in book publishing in New York. Her pieces have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e. She now lives outside Boston.1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe were, as it happened, Donald and I, deciding that evening on how we would have our wedding invitations printed--\u003ci\u003eEngraving? Thermography? Lithography?--\u003c\/i\u003ewhen Adrienne, Donald's ex-fiancée, called to share her good news: she was leaving New York to accept a job in Washington, where we lived, just after the first of the year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was late November.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe were planning an April wedding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd until that instant when the phone rang and Donald ran to the Caller ID box by the desk and froze, I had been planning–perhaps naively, perhaps idiotically–on taking the high road when it came to Adrienne and her relentless pursuit of friendship with Donald. I had vowed, without any true understanding of just how deep-rooted and, well, virulent, my particular strain of jealousy was, I see now, to put an end to my obsession. My suspicion. My frenzied insecurity. I had vowed, as they say, at long last, to get a grip.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn my demons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn my nemesis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClearly this was wishful thinking on my part; a momentary lapse of delusional optimism (quite common, I'd read, with most brides-to-be), for nothing of the sort–maturity, acceptance, suffering in silence–was in the cards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEspecially now that she–Adrienne–would be living, as it were, in our backyard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe had been staring intently at three pieces of Crane's Ecruwhite Kid Finish stationery stock that I'd managed to sneak out of Neiman Marcus's sample book as \"souvenirs\"–the salesman, stout, balding, moist, had excused himself to take a phone call from an important customer: \"And will this be a surprise celebration for the Chief Justice?\" (This was, after all, Washington.) The three sample invitations were identical except for the method of printing (which is why I had lifted them: to better understand the hefty price differential) and the surely fictional inviters and betrotheds (\u003ci\u003eMr. and Mrs. Henry Stewart Evans request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Katherine Leigh to Mr. Brian Charles Jamison. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Fields, III, request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Tiffany Jane to Mr. Phinneas Welch. . . . Our joy will be more complete if you will share in the marriage of our daughter Blah blah blah to Mr. Blah blah blah.).\u003c\/i\u003e Running our fingers slowly and carefully over the print on each card; holding them up to the light; sniffing them, even (my suggestion), yielded nothing. We were failures in the study and appreciation of fine printing techniques.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Okay, I give up,\" Donald said, throwing the invitation he was holding down onto the table and leaning back in his chair until its joints creaked ominously. \"Which is which?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beats me.\" Neiman's had, I explained, not been kind enough to reward my little theft by providing me the answers on the back of each like a set of helpful flash cards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonald brought his chair abruptly forward, sat upright, and yawned passionately. He stretched his arms across the table, pushing the sample invitations aside as he did, and reached for my hands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Honey?\" he said languidly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What?\" I said flatly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"May I speak frankly?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Must you?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHad he ever spoken any other way? Couldn't we, just once, I wondered, get through some task (eating dinner, washing dishes, having sex) without his need to speak frankly?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fine. Speak,\" I said, waving my hand, giving up. Relieved now to have license to speak his mind (a technicality: he spoke his mind quite freely without my permission, as you'll see), he smiled broadly, then brought his shoulders up in a fake cringe, as if to indicate that he felt just \u003ci\u003eterrible\u003c\/i\u003e about what he was going to say–even though, I knew, he didn't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm bored,\" he said, finally, his confession a guilty pleasure (he was a true Catholic, through and through). \"I have to be honest, I'm having a hard time caring\"–broad smile, shoulders up, fake cringe–\"about how the invitations get printed. I mean, why are we doing this?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI couldn't have been more bored myself, but I wouldn't have admitted it for the world. Instead, I let my mouth sag slightly into a sad pout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Doing what?\" I asked. \"Getting married or discussing the invitations?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe phone rang.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Discussing the invitations, of course,\" he said. He reached to give my hands a reassuring little squeeze but I withheld them for effect. \"I \u003ci\u003ewant\u003c\/i\u003e to get married.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe phone rang again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Because.\" I was about to explain how costly engraving was compared to the other options and how since we couldn't tell the difference anyway, we could, with a completely clear conscience, opt for the cheapest method of the three–lithography–but I was too distracted by the third ring of the telephone. On the beginning of the fourth ring he rose from the dining room table where we'd been sitting, took three steps over to the desk, leaned across it, turned back to look at me, and cringed–this time for real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's Adrienne.\"","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303277875429,"sku":"NP9780375713224","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375713224.jpg?v=1767728943","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/her-isbn-9780375713224","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}