"My pretend boyfriend George Clooney is the greatest and, during post-traumatic times when no real person was ever going to get past the gates I'd built, he filled an important role in my life. If you're going to have a pretend boyfriend, you can't do much better. George would have to burn down an orphanage and kill a kitten to lose my devotion. And, even then, I would forgive him if the orphanage was empty and the kitten had it coming."
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 against a pillow in bed 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 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, hope, and the lesson that real boyfriends might be better than pretend ones after all.
Mr. Clooney Takes a Wife is slated for publication in September 2015.
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 against a pillow in bed 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 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, hope, and the lesson that real boyfriends might be better than pretend ones after all.
Mr. Clooney Takes a Wife is slated for publication in September 2015.