A MEMOIR OF REINVENTION

Divorce Diva: Navigating Grief and Loss with Hope, Humor, and Chutzpah

A heartfelt journey through life’s unexpected detours…

What happens when life takes everything you thought you could count on? Marci Darling answers with hope, humor, and a healthy dose of chutzpah. Divorce Diva is an honest, irreverent, and ultimately uplifting journey through heartbreak, reinvention, and finding the extraordinary in starting over.

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WHEN LIFE SERVES YOU HEARTBREAK

The Year That Changed Everything

In one staggering year, Marci Darling loses her father to cancer, her marriage to infidelity, and her best friend to suicide. Through a collection of heartbreaking, heart-filling, and hilarious essays, she chronicles the unconventional ways she finds her footing again, from transforming her ex-husband’s side of the closet into pink sparkles to selling her jewels and taking her children aboard the Orient Express.

Along the way come pumpkin-muffin-fueled revenge, a lawyer who quits after being offered payment in fairy dust, and plenty of unexpected twists. Through it all, Marci discovers that even after profound loss, there is still room for laughter, adventure, and a little magic.

A Beautifully Unconventional Journey
A witty and heartbreaking novel, well-written and moving. I was not prepared to fall so in love with this book of vignettes about one woman’s journey through an unexpected divorce. Darling’s irresistible, relentless quest for happiness and her own truth will uplift you and make you laugh and you just might want to buy a tutu.
Leslie Zemeckis, New York Times Bestselling Author
Life Lessons with Heart & Humor
You don’t have to be going through a divorce to love this book. It’s filled with life lessons, funny and heartwarming. One of my favorite quotes from the book is when Marci finds herself coaching her son’s flag football team. She tells her players, “Life will crush you, because that’s what life does, in between the magical moments, but you don’t lay down. You get up, and you crush it.” Marci Darling is crushing it!
Shannon Kirk, New York Times Bestselling Author
Hope for the Heartbroken
Divorce Diva will bring playful joy, strength, and healing to anyone who has ever had a broken heart.
Charlene Tilton, Actress
Rainbow Moments of The Soul
Divorce Diva is rainbows, unicorns, freshly baked cookies and confetti bombs woven into deep Wisdom and stories that highlight grief in a way that feels like a cozy blanket on a chilly night of the soul. Marci has a brand of big hearted-ness that helps you see your own divorce & loss journey through a pink tinted lens that does NOT shy away from the very real darkness that is experienced when you lose someone you love from death or divorce. I’ve been divorced for 15 years and reading Marci’s stories has given me another layer of healing that feels like you are with your best friend, a glass of whiskey (or tea, whatever) and conversation that is real, raw, and inspiring! Literally made cake after one chapter to share with my high school students! Not many books inspires immediate action and mindset shifts! Let Marci take you on her personal journey as you listen, love, and learn … maybe while wearing a witch hat with a pink boa & sexy shoes or your favorite cozies!
Kimber, Amazon Review
As uplifting and sweet as visions of sugarplums
I loved this book so much. Marci Darling is my favorite, fun loving, beautiful writer on “Girls Love Travel”. Her tales of travel and romance are awe inspiring and legendary. When I told her she should write a book, she said “I already have”. Fast forward to me buying all her books on Amazon. Marci has more joie de vivre and love of life than anyone I have ever known. She offers wonderful, sage advice for others going through divorce. However, her book, to me, was really a template for a life well lived with integrity, light, love, joy, honesty and optimism. She made me want to be a better, happier, more joy filled person and to take more chances in life. I want to wear pink tutus and dance in the moonlight with her. Although I am happily married, I really loved this book and cannot wait to read more from her. Love you, Marci Darling! The world needs more glitter and more joyful spirits like you.
Aimee, Amazon Review
Cannot put it down!
I read this entire book in one evening. This book is great for anyone who has experienced great loss and grief. Her whimsical stories will have you laughing and crying right along with her. She gives you fresh perspective and ideas on how to deal with grief. She manages to convey a very heavy subject in a lighthearted, yet sincere way. I did not feel so alone!
Megan Hurley, Amazon Review
Surprising
I liked it in spite of myself! I had copped a bad attitude, and I was taking it out on the book. However, the more I read, the lighter my load became. At times, I even felt like I was one of the fairy rope dancers. And I was 22 years separated from my own divorce.
I became a great friend to my ex, but that is a different story. The fairies are real. Magic does exist, even if it is only in my heart. A very nice read. I would be a great friend of the author, Marci Darling. You go girl!
Sunnie Grant, Amazon Review
Relief from the Boring Self-Help Saga
Just what I needed. Fun, quirky read about healing, divorce and building life anew. Marci has a way of reading the depths of the crazy ramblings in my mind and putting them on paper in a way that reminds us that we’re not alone in this crazy ride called divorce. Felt more like having a safe, hilarious conversation with a friend than a book on loss… exactly what I needed in this time.
Alyssa Peeples, Amazon Review
Fairy Dust for Payment
Marci Darling spreads love and light in the midst of life crap to be blunt! She seriously took issues all women experience with divorce and kept to her true self including suggesting her lawyer accept fairy dust for payment! Very fun read that will make you cry, laugh, and cheer!!!
Satine, Goodreads Review
What’s not to love?
Divorce Diva is a hopeful book that’ll make you laugh and cry and dig deep into your own highs and lows of life. Very heartfelt and humorous-two of my favorite things about each story! I’m so happy I have this book! Thank you Marci Darling!
Amazon Customer
Awesome book
This is the second book I purchased written by Marci Darling. I love her style of writing. It is sooo uplifting. Can’t wait to purchase another book of hers. Thanks Marci!
Amazon Customer
The Book You Need When Life Hurts
I am only halfway through, but this book is everything I need right now— it’s funny and self empowering and every story is so relatable. I have found myself reacting with a gamut of emotion—guttural belly laughs and sobbing and then feeling hopeful/grateful. As someone navigating the lonely/difficult process of separation/divorce, reading this book feels like getting a hug from an old friend.
Jennie McKay, Goodreads Review
The Beauty of Staying Open
Marci Darling’s Divorce Diva was a pleasant read on a hot summer afternoon. While the pain of divorce is clearly not completely gone, I found Marci’s honesty refreshing. Grief and loss happens to us all and her key message of getting open and staying open for those little miracles in life (rainbows, unicorns and people who “get you”…) rang true for me. While we can’t control others, but I agree that we can “stay in our lane” and make things happen for the better even if it’s a work in progress. Good things do happen for those who are persistent and are open to the glass being half full no matter what’s in it.
Janine, Goodreads Review

More Words, Worlds & Wonderful Things

Discover more of Marci Darling’s wonderfully eclectic world through her other books, each filled with wit, imagination, adventure, and a touch of theatrical magic.