"I loved Juliette, Rising, and Juliette herself. What a lovely, funny, sad, wise novel, incorporating all the most important themes--love and loss, grief, friends and new life. My heart ached for her characters sometimes, and I laughed out loud quite a number of times. Fabienne Marsh is a wonderful writer." --Anne LamottJuliette, a New Yorker transplated to Portland, Oregon for a teaching job journeys through single parenthood, orphanhood, widowhood, new love, neurotic par...

Jim Rosso was anticipating a lonely millennium...So begins the funny and heart-wrenching tale of Jim Rosso, a 38-year-old suburban, divorcé, who finds himself alone, uncoupled and dating for the first time since college.The only woman who appeals to him is Rita Dine, but shes married to his best friend, Charles. Charles reminds Rosso that he met the beautiful, brainy and compassionate Rita through Smartheart, a dating service for Ivy League graduates.After a series of dates-from-he...

Juliette, a New Yorker transplanted to Portland, Oregon for a teaching job, journeys through single parenthood, orphanhood, widowhood, new love, neurotic parents, beloved students, and a life-altering bereavement group. Along the way, Juliette blends her acerbic wit with an admirable willingness to sit in her sadness and we gain entrance to what the other side of grief looks like. Set over the course of several months, and alternating between Juliette’s narration, a plot filled with surpri...