Mr. Clooney Takes a Wife

A year after witnessing the violent death of her ex-husband, Amy Bickers left her job as an editor at Southern Living magazine and started writing essays decidedly removed from the "smoke-and-mirrors perfection" of glossy lifestyle publications. At her kitchen table, in coffee shops, on her back patio, propped up against a pillow while wallowing in Friends reruns, Amy began to share the truth - sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, occasionally involving George Clooney - of how one moves forward after a devastating event. Mr. Clooney Takes a Wife is a collection of frank essays - equal parts fierce and tender - first shared on the blog Vodka Cranberry Clooney. It's a continuation of the journey through grief and healing that began in The Geography of You and Me: A Memoir. Pour your signature cocktail and sit back with tales of love, loss, heartbreak, and hope, and the lesson that real boyfriends might be better than pretend ones after all.