Melanie Gideon was born and raised in Rhode Island, but now lives in the Bay Area with her husband and son. She graduated from Emerson College. She is the author of two young adult novels, The Map that Breathed and Pucker. The Slippery Year is her first memoir.
Contact: Melanie@melaniegideon.com
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Within hours of finishing The Slippery Year, I was raving to friends about its perfect balance of gorgeous writing, quirky wit, and lovable impertinences. I laughed and cried and saw myself in Melanie Gideon's chronicle of maternal neuroses and wifely doubts. What a pleasure to find such a dear and funny book. --Elinor Lipman, author of The Family Man and Then She Found Me.
In this marvelous memoir Ms. Gideon appears to be channeling everything I've ever felt, thought, feared, hoped about motherhood. —Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace.
“Funny, wrenching and spot-on. Get ready to weep and laugh. Gideon weaves a kind of magic here, polishing the days until they gleam like gold.” —Julia Scheeres, author of Jesus Land
"Ever wonder what’s running through your wife’s mind? Read The Slippery Year. Gideon has an utterly charming way of turning the constant compromises of married life into riotous poetic insight." -- Po Bronson, author of NurtureShock.
With courage, poignancy, and abundant hilarity, Melanie Gideon explores the ambivalence that inevitably surfaces when we choose to stick it out with the loves of our lives. Readers with find themselves laughing out loud and nodding with recognition as they slide through The Slippery Year. --Giulia Melucci, author of I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti
Melanie Gideon has reinvented the coming-of-age memoir, and done so with self-deprecation, intelligence, and wit. Gideon’s writing reminded me of the best of Nick Hornby, at turns sweet, then dark, then almost desperate for connection. Despite all obstacles she finds it, within her family, and surely now with gads of readers. The Slippery Year is a terrific book. --Tom Barbash, author of The Last Good Chance