Magnolia Wednesdays

Vivien Armstrong Gray is forty-one, a network news correspondent, and out of a job — shot on assignment, humiliated on the internet, and replaced. She is also, unexpectedly, pregnant.

She retreats to suburban Atlanta and her widowed sister Melanie, who runs a ballroom dance studio, and takes a badly paid column called Postcards from Suburbia, written under a pseudonym and aimed at the women she now lives among. She does not tell Melanie about the pregnancy, the column, or the questions she is quietly asking about how Melanie's husband died.

Wendy Wax writes women's fiction about the second acts people do not plan for. Between the belly-dancing class at the Magnolia Ballroom and the family she has been avoiding, Vivien builds the life she was writing off — right up until her secrets come due.