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Leslie J Lehr's Books

Wife Goes On
Feb.26.2008
WIFE GOES ON chronicles, with wit and intelligence, the lives of four women living in Los Angeles, each in various stages of divorce. When these women find each other, they develop a support network stronger than any marriage. “Husbands may come and go, but friendships are forever.”
66 Laps
Mar.07.2000
I slipped off my clothes and dove into the pool. We are 96 percent liquid. There is nothing more sensuous than a good splash against naked skin: the initial rush of cold, the smooth acquiescence of inner fluid to the outer mantle of wet. Thirty-two-year-old Audrey Hastings swims a mile each day in her backyard pool: sixty-six laps. These meticulously counted crossings are the balm...