Easy Street, Maggie Rowe
Easy Street, Maggie Rowe
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Easy Street
A Story of Redemption from Myself

Author: Maggie Rowe

Narrator: Maggie Rowe

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/25/2022

Synopsis

A moving and offbeat story of unlikely friendship, the cost of ambition, and what happens when the things you’ve always run away from show up on your doorstep. To most, Maggie Rowe appears to live on Easy Street. Her stylish home is in a fashionable Los Angeles neighborhood. She has a kind husband who makes her laugh. And after years of struggle, she is finally making a name for herself in Hollywood. But the agreeable, confident persona she presents to the world often feels like a deception to Maggie, who’s long grappled with mental illness and feelings of inadequacy.Enter Joanna Hergert, a neurodiverse middle-aged woman who lives with her elderly mother. Maggie’s husband, Jim, introduces her to the pair after meeting them at a local charbroiled chicken franchise. Over the next several years, she forms a friendship with Joanna and her mother—despite Joanna’s robust romantic fixation on Jim. What begins as a mild curiosity soon blooms into a complicated and intimate friendship that will challenge Maggie to confront her mental health issues and the trade-offs she’s made to live life on her own terms. Engrossing, moving, and wickedly funny, Easy Street is a midlife coming-of-age buddy comedy about embracing the strength of the families we fashion, finding peace with the choices we make, and, above all, learning to be compassionate with ourselves.

About Maggie Rowe

Maggie Rowe has written for television shows including Arrested Development and Flaked and is the screenwriter of Out West and Bright Day: An Expose of Hollywood's Fastest Growing Religion. She created the long-running stage extravaganzas Hollywood Purity Ball and Hollywood Hellhouse (featuring Bill Maher, Joe Rogan, Sarah Silverman.) Rowe is the author of Sin Bravely: A Memoir of Spiritual Disobedience (NPR's Best Books of 2017).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Don on August 05, 2022

Tone, honesty, intelligence and humor--I loved Easy Street. Maggie Rowe’s telling is harrowing, the suspense (and care) building throughout. You’re in there every second, you care about what happens to these people, you can’t stop turning the pages. I’m usually a loping reader. I read Easy Street in......more

Goodreads review by Ruth on September 28, 2021

This memoir involves an LA screenwriter and his wife with mental health challenges who befriend and ultimately caretake a mother and daughter who are nearly homeless and also suffer from mental health challenges. Jim and Maggie live comfortably, and Maggie suffers from anxiety, intrusive and obsess......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on March 22, 2025

I won the paperback edition of Easy street from a goodreads giveaway. I liked the cover of the book. I wouldn't say that Easy Street is a feel good book. I found most of it depressing. But, I did understand what was happen in the book easily. The book talks about Maggie's struggle with mental illnes......more

Goodreads review by ERIC on February 05, 2022

Wow! A fantastically funny and well-written book! Maggie Rowe, a self-admitted "not nice person" gets Joanna, a middle-aged, special needs person, foisted on her and decides that helping her will lead to karmic pay-off. However, Maggie suffers a breakdown of her own and offers us a brutally honest g......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on January 06, 2022

Thank you #Netgalley for this advanced copy! I want to go back and read Maggie's first book now! I enjoyed her writing style, her honesty, sharing her mental health status and her uncomfortableness at times. I was surprised to see her relationship with the mother/daughter duo her husband introduced h......more

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