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Fall Reading Challenge: The Next by Stephanie Gangi (spotlight)

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The Next

The Next
written by Stephanie Gangi
published by St. Martin’s Press, 2016

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About the book – from Goodreads: Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. She’s consumed by betrayal, spending her numbered days obsessing over Ned McGowan, her much younger ex, and watching him thrive in the spotlight with someone new, while she wastes away. She’s every woman scorned, fantasizing about revenge … except she’s out of time.

Joanna falls from her life, from the love of her daughters and devoted dog, into an otherworldly landscape, a bleak infinity she can’t escape until she rises up and returns and sets it right―makes Ned pay―so she can truly move on.

From the other side into right this minute, Jo embarks on a sexy, spiritual odyssey. As she travels beyond memory, beyond desire, she is transformed into a fierce female force of life, determined to know how to die, happily ever after

 

Stephanie GangiAbout the author: Stephanie Gangi is a lifelong New Yorker. She lives, works and writes in Manhattan. She was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, and raised her own kids in Tribeca, Rockland County and on the Upper West Side.

Gangi’s first publishing credit, many years ago, was a children’s book, Lumpy: A Baseball Fable, co-written with pitching great (and New York Met) Tug McGraw. She ghostwrote a palimony-fueled tell-all about Liberace in 1984 but left the only copy in a taxicab. She has written jacket copy, pitch letters, business plans, PowerPoint presentations, speeches, mortgage checks, absence excuse notes, menus, and letters to editors, hundreds of poems, dozens of story starts, dating profiles, countless emails and texts and tweets and FB posts, and yes, a couple of really lame sexts. She once chalked a love note on the wall of a Paris alley in the rain.

She is an award-winning poet working on a compiling a chapbook, and is at work on her second novel.

The Next is her debut.

Find Ms. Gangi here: web, Twitter, FacebookGoodreads

 

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