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BALANCING ACTS

Balancing Acts, April 2010
by Zoe Fishman

HarperCollins
Featuring: Sabine; Naomi; Charlie
365 pages
ISBN: 0061711802
EAN: 9780061711800
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"Four women attend a class reunion and find that some friendships are just destined to be."

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BALANCING ACTS
Zoe Fishman

Reviewed by Lenore Howard
Posted May 17, 2010

Women's Fiction Contemporary

Charlie discovered the healing power of yoga after a devastating breakup, which led her to drop out of her outwardly glamorous, high-stress Wall Street job and start a yoga studio with a couple of friends. While outwardly she seems to have it all together, she still hasn't quite gotten over the man who broke her heart. Sabine had dreams of a writing career but finds herself still in a "temporary" editing job years later, working on other writers' romance novels and fantasizing about her own Mr. Right. Bess did become a writer, but not the hard-hitting journalist she had planned to be. Instead, she captions celebrity photos for a gossip rag. She's also struggling to maintain a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend in L.A. Naomi gave up her dreams of being a globe-trotting photographer when an unplanned pregnancy left her with a baby boy to raise alone. Now a web designer, she adores 8- year-old Noah and is furious that Gene, Noah's absentee father, has decided to re-enter the picture.

When a 10-year college reunion brings these women together, they decide to do more than stay in touch afterward with a few e-mails or messages on Facebook. They form an exclusive early morning yoga class at Charlie's studio. While learning the moves and philosophy of yoga, the four not only come to know one another better but to learn something about themselves as well.

This charming novel follows Charlie, Sabine, Naomi and Bess through their interactions with one another and on their individual paths as well. I found myself interested in each woman's story and enjoyed being a part of their lives as they handled situations with grace, good humor, sometimes a good cry, and yes, the occasional glass of wine. Although at times I thought there was a bit too much emphasis on the women each feeling they had to be in a relationship, it's a very real part of life and the men in the story aren't just props. I think this is a book readers will want to share with some friends of their own.

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SUMMARY

A poignant debut novel about the transformative powers of yoga and friendship for four women on the verge of realizing their dreams

With beauty, brains, and a high-paying Wall Street position, Charlie was a woman who seemed to have it allβ€”until she turned thirty and took stock of her life, or lack thereof. She left it all behind to pursue yoga, and now, two years later, she's looking to drum up business for her fledgling studio in Brooklyn. Attending her college's alumni night with fliers in tow, she reconnects with three former classmates whose post-graduation lives, like hers, haven't turned out like they'd hoped.

Romance book editor Sabine still longs to write the novel that's bottled up inside her. Once an up-and-coming photographer and Upper East Side social darling, Naomi is now a single mom who hasn't picked up her camera in years. And Bess, who dreamed of being a serious investigative journalist a la Christiane Amanpour, is stuck in a rut, writing snarky captions for a gossip mag. But at a weekly yoga class at Charlie's studio, the four friends, reunited ten years after college, will forge new bonds and take new chancesβ€”as they start over, fall in love, change their lives...and come face-to-face with haunting realities.

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