Newly divorced Dana Stellgarten has always been
unfailingly nice—even to telemarketers—but now her temper
is wearing thin. Money is tight, her kids are reeling from
their dad’s departure, and her Goth teenage niece has just
landed on her doorstep. As she enters the slipstream of
post-divorce romance and is befriended by the town queen
bee, Dana finds that the tension between being true to
yourself and being liked doesn’t end in middle
school . . . and that sometimes it takes a real friend to
help you embrace adulthood, in all its flawed complexity.