Divorce Diva: Navigating Grief and Loss with Hope, Humor, and Chutzpah

by Marci Darling

Divorce Diva tells the inspiring story of Marci Darling, who in one staggering year lost her father to cancer, her marriage to infidelity, and her best friend to suicide. With heartbreaking, heart-filling, and hilarious essays like transforming his half of the closet into pink sparkles; selling her jewels and taking her children on a healing journey aboard the Orient Express; fueling her Revenge Body with pumpkin muffins; and wondering why her lawyer quit because she offered to pay him in fairy dust; Ms. Darling writes about navigating grief with hope, humor, and chutzpah.

201 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 29, 2020

About the author

Marci Darling is the author of two acclaimed mystery novels, Martini Mystery: A Love Letter to New Orleans and The Champagne Scandal: The Spirits Are Calling and Divorce Diva: Navigating Grief and Loss With Hope, Humor, and Chutzpah, ranked #1 in Parenting/Family Humor on Amazon. Her new book, Magic Carpets, Flying Ships, and Moonlit Kingdoms: The True Travel Stories of Marci Darling, is available for pre-order on Kindle and will launch into the world on June 20, 2021.
When she's not writing, Ms. Darling teaches Alchemy: A Transformation Journey utilizing writing and belly dancing.

She holds:
Masters in Education from Harvard
BA in Creative Writing from UCLA
Certificate in Novel Writing from Stanford.

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Reviews

[Sunnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprising

I liked it in spite of myself! I had copped a bad attitude, and I was taking it out on the book. However, the more I read, the lighter my load became. At times, I even felt like I was one of the fairy rope dancers. And I was 22 years separated from my own divorce.

I became a great friend to my ex, but that is a different story. The fairies are real. Magic does exist, even if it is only in my heart. A very nice read. I would be a great friend of the author, Marci Darling. You go girl!

[Jennie McKay · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am only halfway through, but this book is everything I need right now— it’s funny and self empowering and every story is so relatable. I have found myself reacting with a gamut of emotion—guttural belly laughs and sobbing and then feeling hopeful/grateful. As someone navigating the lonely/difficult process of separation/divorce, reading this book feels like getting a hug from an old friend.

[Leslie Zemeckis]

Really loved this book - the author is relentlessly resilient- there is as much depth to this personal story of divorce and carrying on as a single mother as there is humor - I highly recommend

[Janine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marci Darling's Divorce Diva was a pleasant read on a hot summer afternoon. While the pain of divorce is clearly not completely gone, I found Marci's honesty refreshing. Grief and loss happens to us all and her key message of getting open and staying open for those little miracles in life (rainbows, unicorns and people who "get you"...) rang true for me. While we can't control others, but I agree that we can "stay in our lane" and make things happen for the better even if it's a work in progress. Good things do happen for those who are persistent and are open to the glass being half full no matter what's in it.

[Jacqueline Moffette · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love how Miss Marci Darling can find beauty and humor in any experience. Even the difficult ones.

[Tonya Bryant Gillon · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a great fun read!!! I can’t wait to read more by this author. Thank you Goodreads for this free read I am grateful for allowing me to find a new fun author to read!