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“Great scenes and funny lines.
Fans will have fun easily suspending disbelief throughout.”
—Publishers Weekly
THE
HEART ♥ BREAK PILL
A Novel
ANJANETTE DELGADO
EVOCATIVE OFSEX IN THE CITY IN THE BEST WAY—THIS BRIGHT AND FUNNY DEBUT NOVEL FROM EMMY AWARD WINNER ANJANETTE DELGADO WILL HELP MEND MANY A BROKEN HEART!
Erika Luna is a thirty-something scientist living and working in Miami. When her husband of seven years; the very successful, very smart, very good-looking, founding partner of one of Miami’s most successful Public Relations firms falls in lust with another woman, their marriage spirals to hell and Erika’s practical nature leads her down the strangest of paths.
What’s a scientist to do when slapped with pain so deep it interferes with breathing? Try to cure it, of course! This is the premise of Emmy award-winning writer and producer Anjanette Delgado’s delightfully funny and touchingly poignant debut novel, THE HEARTBREAK PILL (Atria Books; $14.00; April 2008).
Anjanette Delgado is a high concept writer in the Hollywood tradition. She began her career as a journalist, working for outlets such as NBC, CNN, Univisión, and Telemundo, covering presidential coups, elections, Olympics, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and both Iraq wars. She has written for Urban Latino, TV Más, and the International Documentary Association magazine, written and produced lifestyle programs and documentaries for MGM
Latin America, and in 2002, wrote and developed the sitcom “Great in Bed” for HBO Latin America.
Imagine what your life would be like if you had a switch, an interrupter of sorts, located somewhere in an unobtrusive part of your body, let’s say on your calf, like a tattoo. See yourself pressing this lever, pin, or button, and being able to control the most uncontrollable part of your body: your heart. You wouldn’t suffer over what isn’t good for you. You wouldn’t cry for what cannot be. You’d just live. You’d be happy.
This is exactly what Erika Luna dreams of after her über successful and sexy husband Martin leaves her for one of his assistants. Sure, she has a strong support group: her perpetually optimistic gay father and his ultra feminist live-in lover, her dramatic best friend Lola, a non-profit theater organizer obsessed with surrounding herself—and Erika—with positive energy, and her recently hired divorce lawyer who also considers herself a spiritual advisor. But it seems that ever since her Humpty Dumpty of a heart had fallen off the wall and turned into a spackled eggshell wall treatment straight out of a Martha Stewart magazine, she is incapable of a logical, methodical, or scientific decision, much less an intelligent one. Erika just wants to be well, sane, and happy again. Immediately.
She’s a woman of science, a researcher; a woman of arguments, facts, and reason. So how can she allow heartbreak to turn her into a raving lunatic? She promises herself that she will come up with a plan—a pill—that will end heartbreak forever. She’s determined to be the absolute leader of humiliated wives and broken hearts the world over.
And with that vow, Erika begins a journey of healing and self-discovery. When Martin left her, she was forced to say good-bye to the life she’d always been afraid of losing and quiet the doubts of her heart. But perhaps, time does heal all wounds, and with the help of her motley crew of a “family”—which now includes a dashing neighbor who works as a director at a domestic violence shelter, she learns to view herself as a person of worth, a woman who has talent, and a woman who must trust herself to love again. And in the end, she realizes that she can’t eliminate love’s pain—because through it we learn to grow as people.
Hip, smart, and utterly significant in today’s world of Match.com and E-Harmony, THE HEARTBREAK PILL by Anjanette Delgado will make readers laugh (at some of their past actions done in the name of love), and feel hope that love is out there—and that they don’t have to sacrifice themselves to find it.
Anjanette Delgado is an Emmy Award-winning television producer, journalist, and writer. A leading Latina in the American media, she currently lives in Miami, Florida. THE HEARTBREAK PILL is her first novel
THE HEARTBREAK PILL: A Novel
By Anjanette Delgado
Published by: Atria Books
ISBN: 1-7432-9753-9
Pages: 288
Price: $14.00 / $16.00 Can.
Pub Date: April 2008