WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU GET DUMPED
A Guide to Unbreaking Your Heart
From the beloved mother-daughter team who brought us What to Do When I’m Gone, a poignant, funny, heartfelt, and gorgeously illustrated guide to navigating the pain and complexity of getting dumped. After Suzy Hopkins’s husband of thirty years unexpectedly left her to pursue an old flame, her grief was so overwhelming that she thought her own heart might stop. How do you take the first step forward after losing such an integral part of your life? In What to Do When You Get Dumped, the mother-daughter duo of Hopkins and her New Yorker–illustrator extraordinaire daughter Hallie Bateman offer an incisive,
From the beloved mother-daughter team who brought us What to Do When I’m Gone, a poignant, funny, heartfelt, and gorgeously illustrated guide to navigating the pain and complexity of getting dumped. After Suzy Hopkins’s husband of thirty years unexpectedly left her to pursue an old flame, her grief was so overwhelming that she thought her own heart might stop. How do you take the first step forward after losing such an integral part of your life? In What to Do When You Get Dumped, the mother-daughter duo of Hopkins and her New Yorker–illustrator extraordinaire daughter Hallie Bateman offer an incisive, tender, appealingly illustrated guide to “unbreaking” your heart. Using a countdown from the moment you’re dumped, the book offers humor and hope as it guides readers on the journey to find new meaning and purpose in a life that’s yours alone. Lighthearted, impactful, and deeply consoling, What to Do When You Get Dumped provides the wisdom to emerge from a breakup smarter, stronger, and with the unshakable knowledge that you are worthy of lasting love.
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Hardcover
- January 2025
- 144 Pages
- 9781639731893
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$24.99
About Suzy Hopkins & Hallie Bateman (Illustrator)
Suzy Hopkins is a former newspaper reporter and magazine publisher. She is coauthor of What to Do When I’m Gone with her daughter, writer and illustrator Hallie Bateman. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hallie Bateman is a writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the NYT Magazine, and many others. Her books include Directions, What to Do When I’m Gone, and Brave New Work. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Praise
“What To Do When You Get Dumped is an emotional, wise, and genuinely comforting read for anyone whose heart is broken, has been broken, or will ever be broken. Hopkins and Bateman manage to find the glimmers of humor in heart ache, as well as the joy and transformation that await us on the other side of healing. A book that feels like a warm hug from your best friend.” —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story
“Abandoned. Betrayed. Unceremoniously dumped. After a short time or a life time. With insight, humor and compassion, here is a sparkly survival manual for living a good and even much better life.” —Maira Kalman
“This book is the best friend we all need in deep, sudden, disorienting grief, reminding us we are not alone, that we won’t feel like this forever—all while making us laugh. Full of wonderful art and writing, What to Do When You Get Dumped is the friend who cries with you, laughs with you, and simply sits there, holding your hand, until you come out the other side. Whole again.” —Wendy MacNaughton
“Vulnerably heart-wrenching, yet infused with laugh-out-loud humor, mother and daughter create a rallying guide to learning to be okay . . . A heartfelt, encouraging, surprisingly humorous guide to recovering from the overwhelming break-up of a long relationship.” —Shelf Awareness