Leslie A. Rasmussen, AFTER HAPPILY EVER AFTER: A Novel

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Although it's not surprising that comedy writer Leslie A. Rasmussen's debut novel, After Happily Ever After, is incredibly funny, the relatability of her characters' experiences is uncanny. Pulling real events and emotions from her and her friends' lives — as well as countless other anonymous women who answered a survey during her long-ago attempt to write a non-fiction book about womanhood — Leslie manages to capture shared experiences that are less than ideal and turn them into something not only worth rereading but reliving.

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0:41.1	Leslie A. Rasmussen is the author of After Happily Ever After. Leslie was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated with a bachelor's in
0:47.1	communications from UCLA and went on to write TV comedies for Gerald McRaney, Bert Reynolds,
0:52.6	Roseanne Barr, Norm McDonald, Drew Carey, and Ralph
0:55.4	Machio, as well as the Wild Thornberries and Sweet Valley High. Later, she earned a master's
1:00.5	degree in nutrition and ran her own business for 10 years. Most recently, Leslie has written
1:05.1	personal essays for online magazines such as Huffington Post, Marie Shriver, and She Knotes. She
1:09.7	loves dogs. And besides having two
1:11.5	adorable Labrador, she volunteers at the Burbank, Animal Shelter in Burbank. Leslie lives in Los Angeles
1:17.1	and has two sons and a husband she's been with since college. After Happily Ever After is her
1:21.8	debut novel. Welcome, Leslie. I'm so happy to have you on Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss
1:26.8	after Happily Ever After, a novel. Oh, thank you so much for having me. Leslie. I'm so happy to have you on Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss after
1:27.6	happily ever after. A novel. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here.
1:33.7	It's so funny because when I got this book like pitched to me and I read the back, I was like,
1:38.2	oh my gosh, I have to do this. It was like, you're like a 45old woman, like dealing with parents, dealing with kids,
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