Anjanette Delgado reads an
excerpt from her novel. The Hearbtreak Pill,
published by Atria. Funny, warm and soooo relevant to women's
romantic and inner life, this novel will make you smile while respecting
your intelligence.
About the Book:
Erika Luna is a
thirty-something scientist living and working in Miami. When her husband
of seven years; the very successful, very smart, very good-looking,
founding partner of one of Miami’s most successful Public Relations firms
falls in lust with another woman, their marriage spirals to hell and
Erika’s practical nature leads her down the strangest of paths. What’s a
scientist to do when slapped with pain so deep it interferes with
breathing? Try to cure it, of course! This is the premise of Emmy
award-winning writer and producer Anjanette Delgado’s delightfully
funny and touchingly poignant debut novel, THE HEARTBREAK PILL (Atria
Books; $14.00; April 2008).
About the Author:
Anjanette Delgado
is an Emmy award-winning writer and producer with over eighteen years of
local and network news experience. She has produced for CNN, NBC, Univision
and Telemundo, among others, producing extensive coverage for events such as
the 1991 Gulf War, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and
the present war with Iraq, which she executive produced for Telemundo in
2003. She won her first Emmy for her human-interest series “Madres en la
lejanía,” about the plight of Latino mothers who leave their own children
behind and come to the United States to work illegally... as nannies.
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