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Overview

Meet Emily Ross, thirty years old, married to her college sweetheart, and personal advocate for cake at breakfast time.

Meet Emily's husband, Kevin, a sweet technical writer with a passion for small appliances and a teary weakness for Little Women.

Enter David, a sexy young reporter with longish floppy hair and the kind of face Emily feels the weird impulse to lick.

In this captivating novel of marriage and friendship, Lauren Fox explores the baffling human heart and the dangers of getting what you wish for.

Editorial Reviews

Claudia Deane
First novelist Lauren Fox is a smooth, wry writer. Her primary achievement is taking you on a slow-motion, step-by-step trip down the infamous slippery slope, showing you how a bored but decent woman starts on high, safe ground and ends up in a ditch. Even more impressively, she does this without your completely losing sympathy for Emily, much as you would stick by your best friend even as you watched her taking out her frustrations on the people she loves.
— The Washington Post
Michiko Kakutani
… [the book] marks the debut of a delightful new voice in American fiction, a voice that instantly recalls the wry, knowing prose of Lorrie Moore crossed with the screwball talents of the cartoonist Roz Chast.
— The New York Times
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Publishers Weekly
Yes, it's an affair novel, but file this adroit but placid debut under chick lit for early marrieds-the ones who are not sure they want to be on the baby-house-'burbs track. At 30, Emily Ross is a Milwaukee freelance writer with a part-time job as assistant editor at a medical journal called Male Reproduction and a marriage to "steady, staid" Kevin, a technical writer she met in college. Kevin, "innocent and intolerable," wants a baby and a house. Emily is ambivalent and bored. A few pages in, Emily meets David Keller, a dark, good-looking writer/editor at the local alternative newspaper, and starts an affair. Things, as expected, do not go well, but Fox's voice is steady, moving easily between comedy and drama. Her emotionally literate delineation of character and relationship give the book texture, with Emily's relationship with her best friend, Meg, emerging as the book's most resonant. Fox draws just the right tension out of Emily's mix of honesty and self-delusion, reflection and romance, with an undercurrent of a sort of left-handed hope. For anyone who's lived through a relationship drama, though, Emily will have a decidedly entitled, gee-whiz quality that's hard to take. (Feb. 7) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
A little flirting is harmless, right? Even if you have been married for nine years to your college sweetheart, men and women can be friends. That's what Emily Ross keeps telling herself after she catches the eye of David Keller in a coffee shop. Of course, that morning she just happened to have left her wedding ring at home. Emily and her husband, Kevin, have been happily married, but the marriage has hit a bumpy patch—he wants to have kids and move to the suburbs. Emily isn't ready for kids and loves living in the city close to their favorite restaurants and shops. Her best friend, Meg, is pregnant, so Emily worries about losing her friend to the thrall of motherhood. When Emily exchanges emails with David, she deludes herself into thinking that this could lead to work (she's a freelancer) rather than an affair. With this satisfying debut novel, Fox has written a twist on the typical chick lit tale. The story looks at happiness vs. loyalty and reconsiders the adage, Be careful what you wish for. Recommended for public libraries.
—Robin Nesbitt
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A debut novel about a young woman who must decide whether to settle for her husband's suburban dreams. Emily Ross loves Kevin, her husband of nine years. But she doesn't want to leave their funky downtown Milwaukee apartment that's in walking distance of all their friends and favorite restaurants in favor of a suburban home just because mortgage rates are rising, which Kevin portentously points out, often. His other drumbeat has to do with having a baby: You're not getting any younger, he tells her, often. To 30-year-old Emily, that's not a persuasive argument. The fact is, she's not sure about having a baby, but she doesn't quite understand why. To complicate matters, lately children have been reminding her of tiny Zsa Zsa Gabors, chauffeured around in their tricked-out strollers, imperious and demanding. Normally, Emily would share her fears with her best friend, Meg. But Meg is eight-weeks pregnant and positively glowing. Besides, Meg wants Emily to have a baby, too. Into Emily's perplexity arrives David, a dreamy, dark-haired editor who works for a local paper. He wants her to write a column for him-and possibly something more. Emily walks the knife's edge as innocent emails between them evolve into strolls in the park and other "non-date" outings. Initially, she forgets to mention she is married, and there never seems a right time to bring it up. When she finally fesses up, their passions usurp the Midwestern morality both thought they possessed. Fox ably evokes the suffocation of a well-meaning but empty marriage and Emily's guilt-ridden but sexually charged affair. In her misery, Emily makes periodic observations that bring Lorrie Moore's wit to mind. But while she mentally whipsherself for betraying the loveable drudge Kevin, she's drinking lattes with her fun friend Meg and steaming up the sheets with dashing David. Lots of admirable writing about a banally self-centered character.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307277374
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 4/8/2008
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 229,209
  • Series: Vintage Contemporaries Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 7.60 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Lauren Fox earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota in 1998. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Utne, Seventeen, Glamour, and Salon. She lives in Milwaukee with her husband and daughter. Still Life with Husband is her first novel.

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Still Life with Husband

By Lauren Fox

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Copyright © 2007 Lauren Fox
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0307264912
In the middle of the night I don't know who he is, this man lying next to me, his leg brushing against my leg, arm draped over my hip. And that's when I want him. I keep my eyes closed and turn toward him, stroking him softly, fingers skimming over his chest, his thighs, feathery touches light enough to wake up just the parts that matter. He responds, and we both know what to do, how not to talk, not even to whisper, letting our bodies move together in the dark. This is a man I picked up in a bar; this is a man whose name I don't know; this is searing, anonymous sex with a stranger, and I'm using all of my senses and none of my heart. He rolls on top of me, heavy and hard, not kissing, hot hands all over me. I grab a condom from my night table and hand it to him.

"Emily," he whispers, crashing rudely into my dream, breaking the rules of 2:00 a.m. sex. "Please?"

"No," I say, my eyes still closed, arching toward him now in spite of myself. "Shhh." I know what he wants, and I'm not prepared to give it to him.

"Baby," he breathes, and I open my eyes to the face of my husband hovering over mine, earnest and needy, the man I have known since college, the man I share a bathroom with, the man who cried during Little Women, who thinks I don't know that he plucks his nose hairs, who's afraid of raisins because they remind him of mouse droppings. "Baby," he whispers again, and I sigh, fully here now, fullyawake and resigned to it. And this is how we finish, knowing everything about each other, completely together, naked and silent and half-satisfied in the middle of the night.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 1, 2007

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    The plot moved quickly- there was never a boring moment in this book, never a passage or chapter to 'slog through' in order to get back to the action- I didn't want to put it down because I could never find a stopping place! Fox does an outstanding job of unapologetically revealing so many of those unspoken truths about relationships and marriage- her honesty and candor brought this book and all her characters to life.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted June 26, 2010

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    Not bad

    I picked this book up on the premise that it was going to be light reading, but it definitely had more drama to it, which was all right. I did like the characters and I thought they were finely done. The author is clever and I laughed sometimes at the conversations that were played out in the book. The only thing was I thought the ending was hurriedly done, and I was disappointed by it.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 14, 2008

    Good Book but....

    I enjoyed this book until the ending. Thoughout the entire book, I felt like I was inside the main character's head. Which I love! I was invested in the main character and wanted to know more. The ending left me disappointed. I know it was meant to be 'symbolic' but, I am not that deep. I didn't get it! I wanted to know, 'What happened next!!!!' I would love a sequel!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 16, 2008

    Short and sweet

    The idea of this book is unusual: Our heroine has everything she could ask for perfect husband, security, faithfulness, etc. So what is the problem? HE wants to move to the suburbs and have a baby. Talk about the proverbial shoe on the other foot. Also, at the same time the wife in the picture meets a handsome and carefree editor. She admits she's married but that doesn't stop the affair. The end result is a mess, but happily, Fox has written so well that the situation comes off.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 22, 2007

    Not bad for her first novel...

    I kept waiting for soemthing to happen and when it did, it lacked drama. It just 'happened'. The ending left alot to be desired.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 28, 2012

    It was pretty dark and depressing

    It was pretty dark and depressing

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  • Posted March 28, 2012

    GREAT READ

    This is a great read, I was hoping it was a light vacation novel, but it's not. It's warm and yet very real. The characters are developed in a great pace to provide a good bond with the readers.

    I enjoyed this novel so much I immediately went and picked up FRIENDS LIKE US.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 27, 2012

    not great - started out cute and funny, then got depressing. an

    not great - started out cute and funny, then got depressing. and, then just ended abruptly. characters are not very likable and are not well-developed.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 6, 2012

    Exciting yet disappointing...

    This book was exciting to me... I could feel the emotions that Emily was experiencing. The ending was really disappointing, it could've been so much better! Its pretty much a cliffhanger story. But still it was a good read.

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