Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York

Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York by Parent, Gail. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780399110184.

Three decades after its original bestselling publication, Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York is still completely on target as the most achingly funny book-length suicide note ever written by an agonizingly single 30-year-old trying unsuccessfully to straddle two worlds: the one shes been programmed for from birth marriage first, life later and the illusive swinging singles scene of liberated New York City. Meet Sheila Levine, she s smart and funny, and her mother tells her she s beautiful. . . . But her skirt s always a bit wrinkled, she s trying to lose 15 make that 25 pounds, she just turned 30 . . . and she s still single. She tries to date and mate, she really does, but disappointment turns to desperation, and after a flash of insight, Sheila calmly decides to kill herself. So she starts to get her affairs in order and writes a suicide note to her loving parents to explain it all.