Susan Wiggs

Just Breathe Susan Wiggs

Chicago cartoonist Sarah Moon tackles lifes real issues with a healthy dose of sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip Just Breathe. As Sarahs cartoon alter ego, Shirl, undergoes artificial insemination, her situation begins to mirror Sarahs own difficult attempts to conceive. However, Sarahs dreams of the future did not include her husbands infidelity: snag number two in Sarahs so-called perfect life. With Chicago and her marriage in the rearview mirror, she flees to the small Northern California coastal town where she grew up, a place she couldnt wait to leave. Now she finds herself revisiting the past an emotionally distant father and the unanswered questions left by her mothers death. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob shed skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, hes been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah discovers she is pregnant. With her exs twins. Its hardly the most traditional of new beginnings, but who says life and love are predictable...or perfect? The winds of change have led Sarah here. Now all she can do is just close her eyes...and breathe.