The Wife App - Mackler, Carolyn

 The Wife App - Carolyn Mackler

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Publication Date:  June 27, 2023

Close friends and all three divorced,  Lauren, Madeline, and Sophie realize that as wives they carried the entire “mental load” in their marriages.  They were the ones responsible for the house, the children, their social lives, medical care….everything.  Over a dinner out, they jokingly suggest that all these chores should be monetized and maybe there should be a “Wife App” to do just that.  What seemed like a crazed idea became reality as techie Lauren worked with the two of them and other tech professionals to create such an app.   An app where a “spouse” could hire a “wife”(who could be female or male) to carry out all those tasks that often fall on the woman to complete.  As they traverse the pitfalls of their daily lives coping with ex husbands, children, and their needs, the app takes off, becoming hugely successful.

 I loved this book (and I am recommending it to my husband!). It is fresh and contemporary, with snappy writing, humorous, painfully on target observations. I have already praised this to all my friends.  This just might be this year's Lessons in Chemistry for me!

Thanks to #netgalley and #Simon&Schuster for the ARC.

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