Let's Catch Up with Phoebe Fox and her Breakup Doctor series
This time of year, most of us are thinking about family—whether we’re excited to be together for the holidays, dreading it…or maybe a little of both. I spend a lot of time thinking—and writing—about family. It’s such a rich emotional mix of the deepest, most primal kind of love and attachment and the sort of five-star frustration and nerve-plucking that only those who’ve known us all our lives can really excel at. Despite the title of my Breakup Doctor series, the stories are, at the heart, very much about family. Breakup Doctor Brook Ogden helps her brokenhearted clients through the end of their rocky, difficult relationships—but her own are far from perfect, as she’s struggled across four books in love, with friendships, and of course, with her mom. Brook and her mother have always had a complicated, often prickly relationship, the way we often do with those who are most like us. In Out of Practice , the fourth and final title of the series that released this fall, her...