The Ballad of Big Feeling

An unforgettable portrait of feminine individuality with a distinctly heartland flair, by an award-winning writer hailed by novelist Ben Marcus as "hilarious and insightful."

It happens to every thirtysomething--the realization that they have aged out of youth. For the heroine in this racous debut novel, a cozy and placid life has begun to buckling under the weight of discomforting midlife realizations. A changing body, a duller mind, parents who need caring, career and romance stagnation, all of these charge in like a lion. Told in humorous and revealing vignettes, we follow the woman as she comprehends the birth of a sibling's child, battles food addiction and past sexual traumas, and comes to terms with newfound family responsibilities and maturity. With comic sensibility and heartfelt observance, this singular story of life burdens is told by a wondrous new American voice.