She tells herself that the pills let her make it through her days…but what if her ever-increasing drug use, a habit that’s becoming expensive and hard to hide, is turning into her biggest problem of all?Īll Fall Down is the story of a woman’s slide into addiction and struggle to find her way back up again. The pill unties her knotted muscles, erases the grime and ugliness of the city, soothes her as she frets about the truth of her looking-good life: that her husband’s becoming distant, that her daughter is acting out, that her father’s early Alzheimer’s is worsening and her mother’s barely managing to cope.

Is a Percocet at the end of a hard day really different than a glass of wine? Is it such a bad thing to pop a Vicodin after a brutal Jump & Pump class…or after your husband ignores you?īack in the car, with her daughter safely buckled behind her, Allison opens the Altoid tin in her purse and slips a chalky white oval underneath her tongue. On the one hand, it’s just prescription medication, the stuff her doctors give her.

But when she’s in the pediatrician’s office with her daughter and a magazine flips open to a quiz about addiction, she starts to wonder whether her use of prescription pills is becoming a problem. These two women are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they're more alike than they'd ever believe.Allison Weiss got her happy ending-a handsome husband, an adorable little girl, a job she loves, and a big house in the suburbs. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie dreams of fame and fortune - and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime. IN HER SHOES: Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, and dreams of a man who will tell her that she's beautiful. And Cannie is plunged into misery, and the most amazing year of her life. But now this.'Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world,' Bruce has written in a national woman's magazine. She has made a tenuous peace with her body and she even felt okay about ending her relationship with Bruce. She loves her job, her friends, her dog and her life. The smart, sharp, plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people's lives for her local newspaper. GOOD IN BED Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous.

Good in bed by jennifer weiner