Five Men Who Broke My Heart: A Memoir-Fast Shipping

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In this honest, hilarious, fiercely intelligent memoir, journalist Susan Shapirodares to do what every woman dreams of: track down the five men who’d broken herheart and find out what really went wrong. Between the ages of thirteen and thirty-five,Susan had plunged into love, heart-first, five times. One bad breakup was more hurtfuland humiliating than the next.

With insight and daring, Susan chronicles her six-month-longjourney back down a road strewn with romantic regret. Although for years she’d blamedher boyfriends for their flagrant infidelity, ludicrous faults, and immature foibles,to her shock she can now suddenly pinpoint the exact moment where she herself screwedup each relationship.

A successful freelance writer living in Manhattan, SusanShapiro was in the midst of a midlife crisis she called her “no-book-no-baby summer.”Married for five years to Aaron, a workaholic TV comedy writer always on the road,she was beginning to wonder if she’d remain book- and babyless forever. Then thephone rang, and it was Brad, a college flame who’d become a Harvard scientist witha book coming out. Susan offers to interview him, and she winds up launching intoall the intense, invasive questions she’d always wanted to ask him. To her surprise,he answers them! This ignites a spark that sends her on a cross-country jaunt backthrough her lust-littered past.

While Brad is still single, she finds that HeartbreaksNumber Two, Three, and Four are , a theater professor, and Richard, amusic biographer, are happily married with children. Tom, a handsome blond lawyerin L.A., is getting divorced. Just as it’s becoming easy to worm her way back intoher exes’ good graces, she crashes head-on with David, a wry Canadian root canalspecialist. (“It’s the equivalent of what you did to me emotionally,” she tells him.)She then gut-wrenchingly relives the agony of splitting up with her first love allover again. Yet somewhere between the tantalizing what-ifs and bittersweet might-have-beens,she finds what she’s been searching for all along.

Part relationship manifesto,part confessional, and part valentine to the males in her life she adores,
Five MenWho Broke My Heart is for anyone who has ever wondered what became of their firstlove. Or second, third, fourth, or fifth…