Weight of a Woman

The mischievously funny, complicated, and sometimes heartbreaking story of Sara Wolfe, a young professor who puts her job on the line when she is tempted by a career-threatening relationship with a student (who’s also a rock star). As she tells herself alternative truths about this and all her other self-destructive tendencies, including an eating disorder (it’s just an attempt to get back into her designer jeans) and flirting with inappropriate people (but only when she’s drunk, which is most of the time), her life descends into chaos.

While her best friends, Professor Marco Gonzalves (an award-winning poet) and Dr. Jane Curran (director of the campus-based Women’s Resource Center where, ironically, Sara counsels students with food issues), try to save her with alcohol-ridden intervention parties, she only continues to increase her intake of pinot noir, lose more weight, and get closer to Poetry Boy (her famous pupil).

Struggling to connect it all with the damage of a past sexual assault, she has some choices to make. None of them are predictable.

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$26.95

Book Details

Dimensions 216 × 140 × 18 mm
Extent

312 pages

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Genre

Fiction

Release date

30 January 2025

ISBN

9781922311627

Imprint

Odyssey Books

About The Author

Judith Jackson-Pomeroy

Judith Jackson-Pomeroy

Originally from the UK, Judith Jackson-Pomeroy moved to the US to earn her PhD. When she’s not writing women’s fiction, she works as an editor for an academic editing company and as a Research Consultant at Wellesley Centers for Women, where she recently collaborated on a #MeToo publication. She is the recipient of an international fiction writing award and has presented extensively on women’s issues and gender. Her fiction is an extension of all she’s learned (both professionally and from her own experience and that of her daughters, friends, and students). It has been described as a take on modern womanhood, with themes of sexual politics, mental health, and addiction, and features tartly funny, unapologetic, complex female protagonists who will make you laugh, facepalm, and cry.

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