Self-Help
In nine captivating stories, the author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? probes the pleasures and pains of modern relationships, offering poignant yet wickedly funny advice on How to Be an Other Woman , How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes) , and for surviving other modern crises of loss and love.

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1. \Self`-help"\, n. (Law)
   The right or fact of redressing or preventing wrongs by one's
   own action without recourse to legal proceedings, as in
   self-defense, distress, abatement of a nuisance, etc.
   

2. \Self`-help"\, n.
   The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of
   others.