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Second Wives: The Pitfalls and Rewards of Marrying Widowers and Divorced Men
With more than half of all marriages ending in divorce, the number of women faced with the prospect of becoming second wives is at a record high. This compassionate and timely guide to remarriage mixes insights and advice from experts with interviewes with more than one hundred second wives. Barash tackles such issues as competition with the first wife, in-laws, stepchildren, and the financial strain of supporting two families.
256 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2000
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About the author
Susan Shapiro Barash
22 books27 followersSusan Shapiro Barash has written over a dozen nonfiction books, including Tripping the Prom Queen, You’re Grounded Forever, But First Let’s Go Shopping and Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships. For more than twenty years she taught gender studies in the Writing Department at Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught creative nonfiction at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. For her fiction, Between the Tides, A Palm Beach Wife, A Palm Beach Scandal, and Maribelle’s Shadow, she writes as Susannah Marren.
She has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Elle, Marie Claire, and has appeared on national television including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. Barash has been a guest on national radio including NPR and Sirius Radio. Speaking appearances include Credit Suisse, Bayer Diagnostics, UBS, United Way, Kravis Center and the Society of the Four Arts.
In 2021 she received the New York State Assembly Member’s Exceptional Leadership Award, presented by Rebecca Seawright. The following year, Susan won the 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award for her novel A Palm Beach Wife.
She has served as a literary panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, as a judge for the International Emmys, and as Vice Chair of the Mentoring Committee of the Women’s Leadership Board at the JFK School of Government, Harvard. Susan belongs to Greenwich Pen Women (Pen Women America), NYWIFT, the Authors Guild and ASJA.
Follow her on Facebook and Twitter
and Instagram @susanshapirobarash
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She has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Elle, Marie Claire, and has appeared on national television including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. Barash has been a guest on national radio including NPR and Sirius Radio. Speaking appearances include Credit Suisse, Bayer Diagnostics, UBS, United Way, Kravis Center and the Society of the Four Arts.
In 2021 she received the New York State Assembly Member’s Exceptional Leadership Award, presented by Rebecca Seawright. The following year, Susan won the 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award for her novel A Palm Beach Wife.
She has served as a literary panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, as a judge for the International Emmys, and as Vice Chair of the Mentoring Committee of the Women’s Leadership Board at the JFK School of Government, Harvard. Susan belongs to Greenwich Pen Women (Pen Women America), NYWIFT, the Authors Guild and ASJA.
Follow her on Facebook and Twitter
and Instagram @susanshapirobarash
for updates and additional writings.
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