Club Sandwich

by Lisa Samson

Book Overview

Hey, Friend Do you know what it's like give to 100 percent and still feel like it's notand you're notenough for anybody? To be caught between caring for an aging parent and raising young children? I... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578568854
• ISBN13: 9781578568857
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Waterbrook Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Taken Back

This book is the best and funniest christian book that I've read in years. Iv'e already raised my family but if you are raising up children and feel like the world is on your shoulders, you won't after you read the life of Ive Schneider, she can handle most everything in life and with humor besides. I would recommend this to all women young and older.

Beautiful Story

Sampson can pull a reader into the story so well. The characters are well rounded. It took a me a chapter or two to really get into it- once I was, I was sad it ended.

She writes my heart

I love Lisa Samson's books. Even though her heroines lead lives that are nothing like mine she still manages to find the beat of my heart and put it down in words so I can clearly see my strengths and my flaws. Reading her books is not only entertaining, it is rewarding and cathartic!

EVERYONE NEEDS THIS BOOK!

With a son off to college and ailing parents across the country, the theme of the book hit home. I love Lisa Samson and would purchase a Lisa journal of blank pages if need be. Go out and pick up this book. Start your own club. But tell everyone about Lisa Samson and her terrific new book!

deep psychological character study

In the Baltimore suburbs, Ivy Schneider finds life overwhelming. She writes a newspaper column, works at the family restaurant, raises three kids including one in diapers, insures her widowed mom gets her dialysis treatment and has no time for herself. Her spouse Rusty tours with the Heavenly Harmonics gospel barbershop quartet and is away from their bed quite often, failing to accompany her to her twentieth high school reunion. At the end of her rope, Ivy feels all alone and squeezed from all ends. She places an ad for other individuals trapped as the sandwich generation to contact her. To her surprise several folks do share her feeling that the world is collapsing on her. Together they form CLUB SANDWICH to help one another cope. A stunned Rusty cannot believe his wife depends on strangers rather than him, but how he acts now that Ivy has formed a support group remains to be seen. This is a deep family drama that centers on the pressure of being the sandwich generation struggling to care for ailing parents and nurturing children at the same time. Ivy is a terrific superwoman feeling the weight of the world with no, one including her spous,e to help her balance her responsibilities until she forms the club with similarly "trapped" soul mates. Lisa Samson provides a deep psychological character study that showcases a growing phenomenon. Harriet Klausner