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# Separation Anxiety: A Novel

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A book you either connect to or you don't
  

*by I***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2020*

Kids and pets are the glue that keep families together. That's what I got from this book.  It's too bad more couples don't realize that and it's a good thing Gary and Judy realized this at the end. This is a book about forcing yourself to move forward, while trying to keep your economic lifeboat afloat.  It's ok for Judy to get that teaching certificate if it helps relieve her anxiety about money.  We have to recognize when we move through certain points in our lives that we have to make decisions for our quality of life for our family rather than what we want.  Without our pets, I am fairly certain my own family when I was growing up would have collapsed and I am fairly certain I might have been homeless at one point if the thought of giving up my pets  hadn't forced me to try harder and work harder.  There are some really interesting and embarrassing situations that Judy goes through but ultimately she needs to focus on what she can do instead of what is wrong with everyone else.  So I connected to this book because of the pets.  From reading the interview with the author at the end of the book, it is obvious that this book is somewhat autobiographical from her own life struggles.  I can relate because there were two or three times over the last 18 years I thought I would just completely crumble but somehow I got through things and took any opportunity I saw.  I went from almost bankrupt and  homeless to owning a home 4 years later.  I can totally relate to this author if not to all of the main character's experiences.  This is  worthwhile read and I plan to keep this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    COPING WITH ANXIETY..
  

*by L***W on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2020*

Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy’s old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she’s repeated the process every day since.  Life hasn’t gone according to Judy’s plan. Her career as a children’s book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nosedive. Teddy, now a teenager, treats her with some combination of mortification and indifference. Her best friend is dying. And her husband, Gary, has become a pot-addled professional “snackologist” who she can’t afford to divorce. On top of it all, she has a painfully ironic job writing articles for a self-help website—a poor fit for someone seemingly incapable of helping herself.My Thoughts:  From the beginning of Separation Anxiety, we connect with Judy’s voice as she shares her sometimes snarky and often humorous thoughts about life, loss, and anxiety, while struggling to find new ways to cope. Wearing the dog might seem drastic or even weird, but to Judy, it makes perfect sense. She deals with the reactions of people to her choice, while still trying to find other ways to overcome her writer’s block and her marital woes.I liked Judy and kept rooting for her to find another way to deal with the stress, something that wouldn’t necessarily make her anxiety so visible, but as time passed, it all made sense. In the end, I loved how she and Gary began to reconnect in new ways. An intriguing portrait of a marriage. 4.5 stars.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Perfect Fiction for Anyone Who Hasn't Had a "Regular" Life
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2020*

You know the people who have "regular lives." They work 9 - 5 jobs for companies with steady paychecks and they got to those jobs through some sort of regular K-12 plus 4, 7, or 10 more. You could set a clock by these people's lives. Then their are people who switch careers a couple of times, go to law school at 34 or 54, and spend time trying on lives like they are in the dressing room at The Loft. There is no clock because time is irrelevant, it's about living a purpose and a legacy and having meaning. The downside of the less-than-regular life is you become Judy Vogel. A simultaneously absurd and believable character who walks around wearing a dog in a baby sling. This notion wasn't covered in my middle school Home Living Course, but I completely understand it now. Amazing little tid-bits about grief and being the sandwich generation (people raising tiny humans while their aging parents need help) that isn't talked about as much in fiction in modern terms for women who also have careers and need to win bread. I wanted to know who the Secret Pooper was. I wanted to see if Judy and Gary ended up staying together. It kept me reading. Yes, it's absurd, I mean who walks around wearing a dog? But it's also very real. Life is what happens when you are making other plans, and there's this amazing line about grief in there about living in the past and being afraid of the future. I'm not going to quote it, you have to read it in the moment and let it speak to you. It's a quick read, a "beach read" if you will.  Funny, absurd, and real. You'll be looking at people like they have birds on their heads forever. If I were the author, I wouldn't read these things, but if someone connected with her does read this, thank her for me, I truly enjoyed the journey of reading this book.

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