November 2009, Featured Articles, Biographies & Memoirs
Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies
Isabel Gillies, known for her television role as Detective Stabler's wife on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and for her cinematic debut in the film Metropolitan, graduated from New York University with a BFA in film. She lives in Manhattan with her second husband, her two sons, and her stepdaughter.
The wonderfully ironic title of this memoir captures the notion that although divorce is an extremely common experience in this country, it is not so common when it is one's own divorce. Isabel, a New York actress and her husband Josiah, a poetry professor, meet and fall in love and
Gillies, Isabel. Happens Everyday. An All-Too-True Story. Read by the author. 6 CDs. 6.25 hrs. Recorded Books. 2009. 978-1-4407-2824-2. $72.75. vinyl binder; content notes.
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