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From a USA Today bestselling author comes a poignant, funny, and heartfelt novel about a wife and mother grabbing hold of a second chance she never saw coming.

Vivian Quackenbush enjoys a typical life. She has wines day evenings with her two best friends. Her son is in college. She and her husband, Mitch, are planning the next move for their empty-nester future. But to Vivians blindsided surprisenot together.

After nearly twenty-five years of marriage, Mitch wants a divorce. He confesses that he doesnt love her anymore. He never even liked her chicken salad! Brutal. What is Vivian to do but channel her anger, frustration, and pain into a video she posts online. Ill-advised? Perhaps. Cathartic? Absolutely. Overnight, Vivian goes viral. Millions of views and countingto Mitchs fury, her sons embarrassment, her mothers support, and the medias delight. For Vivian, its a moment of truth: hide or lean into it. Vivian 2.0 chooses to leanmaybe even toward the younger single father next door.

Now Vivian is wondering where she goes from here. Shes discovering that somewhere in her trending, if upended life, shell have to figure out who she really wants to be.