If you love it, let it kill you : a novel

A novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently and soon in her ex-husband’s debut novel. For a week, her life continues largely unaffected by the news, she cooks, runs, teaches, entertains, but the morning after baking mac ’n’ cheese from scratch for her nephew’s sixth birthday, she wakes up changed. The contentment she’s long enjoyed is gone. In its place, nothing. A remarkably ridiculous midlife crisis ensues, featuring a talking cat and a game called Dead Body.