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A Novel
Ecco
March 2007
On Sale: February 20, 2007
256 pages ISBN: 0060875968 EAN: 9780060875961 Hardcover
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Emily has a tendency to live with one foot out the door.
For her, the best thing about a family crisis is the excuse
to cut and run. When her mother dramatically announces
they've found a lump, Emily gladly takes a rain check on
life to be by her mother's side, leaving behind her career,
her boyfriend, and those pesky, unanswerable questions about
who she is and what she's doing with her life. But back in her childhood bedroom, Emily realizes that she
hasn't run fast or far enough. One evening, while her mother
calls everyone in her Rolodex to brief them on her medical
crisis and schedule a farewell martini, Emily opens the
door, quite literally, to find her past staring her in the
face. How do you forge a relationship with the father who
left when you were five years old? As Emily attempts to find
balance on the emotional seesaw of her life, with the help
of two hopeful suitors and her Park Avenue Princess sister,
she takes a no-risk job as a receptionist at her father's
law firm and slowly gets to know the man she once pretended
was dead. From the brainy, breezy writer who "writes like a
professional comic" (The Onion) and is "hard to stop reading
once you start" (USA Today) comes a laugh-out-loud tale that
confirms you can recover from your parents, the bad habit of
missed opportunities, and men who romance you with meat.
When opportunity knocks, it's time to stop running and start
living.
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