How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over by Theo Pauline Nestor

Gambling is the catalyst for Theo Pauline Nestor, a stay-at-home mom with two daughters, to divorce her husband of 10 years.

A breezy memoir that left me feeling somewhat inadequate because she rebounded so quickly, including with a new love interest. Still, worth the read because of some really relatable insights. Because I’ve been known to play ostrich, I loved the chapter in which she draws parallels between her denial of a rat in her house to the excuses she made in her marriage. When she tells herself that what she sees is wild rice on her floor (not rat shit), I laughed out loud.

"But for a stay-at-home mom, divorce isn't just divorce. It's more like divorce plus losing your job. The job I once had—stay-at-home-mom-slash-dilettante-writer—no longer exists."