J. MITCHARD’S NOVEL

Recently a friend told me, I must read Jacquelyn Mitchard’s latest novel, Breakdown Lane. “What’s it about,” I asked? “Just read it,” she replied and refused to say any more. But a couple days later she called and said, “I better give you a hint or it just might be too much of a shock.”

Yes I was surprised. As I read the novel I could hardly believe how much the heroine and I had in common. We both married Jewish men, moved to Sheboygan, WI, their hometowns, and gave birth to a son and daughters. In addition, we both wrote newspaper advice columns, her husband was a lawyer and mine had gone to law school, and our awful husbands left us for other women. Well that’s quite a lot of similarities for me to share with a fictitious character. But on top of all that, we both have Multiple Sclerosis. And if that’s not enough, the author and I live fairly near each other. She lives in Oregon and I live in Middleton, two cities very close to Madison, WI. We’ve never met and so I find it absolutely incredible that she should write a story so much like my own.

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