The Longest Goodbye: a Memoir

Marcia Temple is a beautiful, sensuous, suburban married woman who is entering the treacherous, unsettling 40s. She is unhappy with her life but has no idea why. When someone of authority naively suggests something to her to get her out of her blues, she embarks on a life-long journey of lust, glamour, infidelity, and uncertainty which spans over twenty years. She moves from coast to coast experiencing pain and passion, which eventual evolve into healing and growth. This memoir begins when Marcia is watching reruns of the popular TV show Sex and the City. It jars her memory of a series of exciting and desperate events that changes her life forever. Events that took her away from her beloved Manhattan and the man she loves deeply and dangerously. She cautions others who are blinded by uncontrollable passion to beware of the consequences when the heart betrays rationale. Every person who has ever embarked on a life-long discovery of love, universal truth, and survival will find this book intriguing and helpful. This cautionary tale will fascinate people from their twenties to their seventies. This is not the usual story of romance, love, marriage, and deceit but an introspective into lifes choices, with its consequences and its learning lessons. This memoir is a definite page-turner.

Marcia Temple is a beautiful, sensuous, suburban married woman who is entering the treacherous, unsettling 40s. She is unhappy with her life but has no idea why. When someone of authority naively suggests something to her to get her out of her blues, she embarks on a life-long journey of lust, glamour, infidelity, and uncertainty which spans over twenty years. She moves from coast to coast experiencing pain and passion, which eventual evolve into healing and growth.This memoir begins when Marcia is watching reruns of the popular TV show Sex and the City. It jars her memory of a series of exciting and desperate events that changes her life forever. Events that took her away from her beloved Manhattan and the man she loves deeply and dangerously. She cautions others who are blinded by uncontrollable passion to beware of the consequences when the heart betrays rationale.Every person who has ever embarked on a life-long discovery of love, universal truth, and survival will find this book intriguing and helpful. This cautionary tale will fascinate people from their twenties to their seventies. This is not the usual story of romance, love, marriage, and deceit but an introspective into lifes choices, with its consequences and its learning lessons. This memoir is a definite page-turner.