title: Sex as a Second Language: A Novel
author:  Alisa Kwitney 
description: "A witty, engaging read." -- <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i><br /><br />"Smart, sassy...funny, and emotionally true, a great read!" -- Jennifer Crusie, bestselling author of <i>Bet Me</i><br /><br />"An engaging and intelligently written comedy." -- <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /><br />"A sassy, sexy story that proves that being middle-aged is not necessarily the end of the world." -- <i>Tucson Citizen</i><br /><br />"Smart, funny, and very real. Alisa Kwitney gets to the heart of relationships and portrays them with wit and honesty." -- Leslie Schnur, author of <i>The Dog Walker</i>
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  ## ALSO BY ALISA KWITNEY
  
  On the Couch
  
  Does She or Doesn’t She?
  
  The Dominant Blonde
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
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  ATRIA BOOKS  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2006 by Alisa Kwitney
  
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
  thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Atria Books, 1230
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Kwitney, Alisa, date.
  
  Sex as a second language : a novel / Alisa Kwitney.
  
  p. cm.
  
  1\. Divorced women—Fiction. 2. Middle-aged women—Fiction. I Title.
  
  PS3611.W58S495 2006
  
  813'.6—dc22 2005055895
  
  ISBN: 1-4165-1649-2
  
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