What to Do When You Get Dumped
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
"A book that feels like a warm hug from your best friend." -Emily Henry, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Funny Story
From the beloved mother-daughter team who brought us What to Do When I'm Gone, a poignant, funny, heartfelt, and gorgeously illustrated guide to navigating the pain and complexity of getting dumped.
After Suzy Hopkins's husband of thirty years unexpectedly left her to pursue an old flame, her grief was so overwhelming that she thought her own heart might stop. How do you take the first step forward after losing such an integral part of your life?
In What to Do When You Get Dumped, the mother-daughter duo of Hopkins and her New Yorker–illustrator extraordinaire daughter Hallie Bateman offer an incisive, tender, appealingly illustrated guide to "unbreaking" your heart. Using a countdown from the moment you're dumped, the book offers humor and hope as it guides readers on the journey to find new meaning and purpose in a life that's yours alone.
Lighthearted, impactful, and deeply consoling, What to Do When You Get Dumped provides the wisdom to emerge from a breakup smarter, stronger, and with the unshakable knowledge that you are worthy of lasting love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hopkins and her daughter, New Yorker cartoonist Bateman, follow up What to Do When I'm Gone with another heartfelt and witty mash-up of advice and memoir, this time on how to navigate romantic breakups. After her husband of 30 years leaves her for an old flame, Hopkins embarks on a journey of grief, rage, misery—and, eventually, healing. The countdown to "unbreak a heart" begins, she explains, when one emerges from the initial "toxic cloud." From there, Hopkins offers a cathartic catalog of her own travails and a step-by-step instruction manual. Immediately after getting dumped, she advises, one should panic, take cover (hiding under a pile of blankets is an option), and climb aboard the "heartbreak express" to commune with fellow sufferers. But as time heals their wounds, the lovelorn can open back up by seeking beauty in the world, saying "yes" to new things, and ultimately finding a way to "forgive or forget." Hopkins's simple, vulnerable, and sometimes sarcastic instructions are accompanied by Bateman's lightly humorous drawings, with scenes ranging from close-ups of women sobbing, to dishes piled up in a sink, a dog game show host on a wheel of outcomes, and a roller coaster labeled "brace yourself." For any reader reeling from a split, this is a tender embrace from someone who's been there.
