茱蒂曾經是暢銷的兒童作家，直到她因為兩部失敗的商業劇本，被作家們集體唾棄，事業不成，江郎才盡。回到家中，還得面對青春期的兒子泰德。與丈夫的貌合神離，想離婚還沒有錢。只能繼續保持同居，演給兒子看一場美滿婚姻。
年過半百的中年危機襲來，茱蒂決定把用之前打掃地下室發現的嬰兒背帶，把自家狗兒，背在胸前。至少溫暖的身體可以減緩她的不安。而她的丈夫凱瑞自稱自己是零嘴大師，在網路上販售零嘴，偶爾抽抽大麻也還過得去。
為了減輕經濟壓力，他們決定招待一群人偶劇團員，用真人扮演人偶的表演團體。還有一對年輕的夫妻也搬入住家，更添不少趣事。
一群房客，兩個中年危機的夫妻，一個青春期少年。泰德變得越來越多疑，是誰會在學校的大廳裡大排便?荒腔走板的現實生活，誰可以找回希望？
作者蘿拉‧奇格曼(Laura Zigman)用她獨特的幽默感，寫下這荒誕的人生變局，道出感人肺腑的故事。輕描淡寫之中，寫出中年危機的無助與慌亂。
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＂Separation Anxiety is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: Start reading and don’t stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel.＂ --Alice Hoffman
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From bestselling author Laura Zigman, a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose life is unraveling and the well-intentioned but increasingly disastrous steps she takes to course-correct her relationships, her career, and her belief in herself
Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy’s old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she’s repeated the process every day since.
Life hasn’t gone according to Judy’s plan. Her career as a children’s book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive. Teddy, now a teenager, treats her with some combination of mortification and indifference. Her best friend is dying. And her husband, Gary, has become a pot-addled professional ＂snackologist＂ who she can’t afford to divorce. On top of it all, she has a painfully ironic job writing articles for a self-help website--a poor fit for someone seemingly incapable of helping herself.
Wickedly funny and surprisingly tender, Separation Anxiety offers a frank portrait of middle-aged limbo, examining the ebb and flow of life’s most important relationships. Tapping into the insecurities and anxieties that most of us keep under wraps, and with a voice that is at once gleefully irreverent and genuinely touching, Laura Zigman has crafted a new classic for anyone taking fumbling steps toward happiness.