The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms

Amy Byler, single mom, is getting by in her small Pennsylvania town with her adolescent children. She has friends and her job as a school librarian and tackles each day as it comes. As she stands in the drugstore one day, she sees the person she least expects to encounter – her husband. She ducks behind the Q-tips as “any self-actualized” woman would do. John, her husband, left three years ago for a business trip to Hong Kong and

never returned.

John wants a chance to get to know his children again and Amy, tired from life as a single-mom, escapes on a summer trip to stay with a friend in New York City. Her friend works at a fashion magazine and enlists Amy for an article on #Momspringa which will be about a woman on a mini vacation from single motherhood.

The story is mainly told from Amy’s perspective, but each chapter begins with a journal entry written by her fifteen-year-old daughter. I enjoyed the humor in the story as well as the characters. Of course, any mom can also appreciate the hectic life Amy lives and the longing for a brief vacation. The texting conversations between Amy and her friends scattered throughout were also fun to read.

I recommend this book for readers wanting a fun, rom-com escape!

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