Please help me remember the title of this book

September 12, 2013 1:15 PM

I read a book in 2006 or 2007. I believe it had just come out. It was a compilation of chapters by accomplished female authors; I think largely chick-lit authors. It was sort of quarter-life crisis type of book. I specifically remember one chapter by a woman who broke up with her boyfriend repeatedly, and then he died. Her friends remarked that if she had married him line he wanted, she'd be a widow and she said she would rather have been his widow than be his nothing. Is there anyone else on earth, or on AskMe who's read this book and can help me out with a title, author, or editor?
posted by Enchanting Grasshopper to Grab Bag (2 answers total)

Best answer: It's probably Melissa Senate's "The One Who Got Away" in It's A Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties. Here's the Google Books link to the essay.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 1:40 PM on September 12, 2013

Response by poster: Thanks!
posted by Enchanting Grasshopper at 11:44 PM on September 12, 2013