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    The List
    The List
    The List
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    The List

    By Melissa Yin

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    Oona Mak's done the smart thing all her life. As an English teacher, she helps high school kids figure out life and literature, in that order. She married a kinder, gentler engineer in a perfect wedding.

    Except now her husband wants to schtup someone else and Oona could

    a) Divorce him, teach summer school and cry in her friends' iced tea. (Naaaaah. Except for the divorce.)
    b) Try to work things out with her husband and turn her grief into something socially acceptable like buying Moroccan lamps and bleaching her teeth. (You're joking, right?)
    c) Run through her List. Bingo.

    Don't we all have a List? The first guy you really loved, the guy who got away, the guy you never paid attention to in high school until he morphed into a McDreamy-McSteamy combo and now you'd give him a second chance?

    The List of all the guys you coulda-woulda-shoulda.

    Now Oona can. She will. And she should.

    The List.
    Because a few good men are the best revenge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOlo Books
    Release dateAug 21, 2011
    ISBN9780987686572
    The List
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    Melissa Yin

    Melissa Yin is a doctor, writer, and free spirit who lives east of Montreal with her family.

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