Money and romance. The secret economy of women / Karen Karbo -- Rescue mission / Sheri Holman -- For richer or for poorer / Marisa Belger -- A tale of two bank accounts / Ann Hood -- Love and the bottom line / Joni Evans -- The wages of love / Lucy Kaylin -- Toolbelts, not tuxes / Abby Ellin -- How I left It / Marnie Hanel -- The lost Lexus / Melanie Thernstrom -- Money and family -- Severance / Jennifer Wolf Perrine -- Count the ways / Kathryn Harrison -- The miser / Amy Sohn -- Money matters / Julia Glass -- My brother's keeper / Yolonda Lawrence -- Planned parenthood / Lori Gottlieb -- The price of admission / Leslie Bennetts -- The inheritance / Dani Shapiro -- 'Til debt do us part / Rebecca Johnson -- Who's your daddy? / Amy Cohen -- Letter to my oldest son / Susanna Sonnenberg -- Money and self -- Ignorance is bliss / Laurie Abraham -- The wages of sin : a personal history of economics / Kim Barnes -- Keeping up appearances / J. Courtney Sullivan -- The perils of the privileged poor / Laura Fraser -- Rich little poor girl / Bliss Broyard -- Disco, motherhood, and the art of survival / Veronica Chambers -- My so-called financial life / Rebecca Traister.
0
An anthology of original essays explores the complicated and powerful connection between love and money in America, in a volume that includes contributions by such writers as Kim Barnes, Lori Gottlieb, and Kathryn Harrison.