First published 2011
Isabella files papers at a mailing company for a boss who demands chocolate muffins while claiming to diet. Mary finally meets a nice guy who loves his mother, then discovers he'll never love her quite as much. Lauren waits tables at a Midtown bar and swears she won't fall for the sleazy bartender with dirty blond curls who makes perfect vodka sodas. All three women spend their Sundays at bridal showers, admiring toasters and eating tiny sandwiches while everyone they know gets married. Isabella endures blind dates with gay men. Mary develops crushes on her boss. Lauren keeps a goldfish named Willard. Through boozy family holidays and disastrous ski trips, relationships destroyed by politics and romances discovered in pet stores, the three friends stumble through their early adult years. Everyone else seems to have plans, great jobs, and appropriate boyfriends. These women have mixed signals, heartbreak, and the wild frustrations of figuring out what to do with their lives.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, adult-fiction, 21st-century, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: friends-to-lovers, slice-of-life
Setting: Midtown
Period: Early Adult Years
294 pages · Hardcover · Knopf