First published 2018
Harriet Diamond sits in her Malibu home at eighty-five, still wearing the kind of clothes that turn heads on twenty-somethings. She thinks back to Brooklyn in 1932, where she grew up in a tight Jewish community before her family packed up for sunny Los Angeles. There she found herself surrounded by wealthy Protestant classmates whose world seemed light-years from her own. This moment began a lifelong pattern of transformation. Harriet became the perfect 1950s wife, then embraced the sexual revolution of the seventies, and lived as a wealthy party-goer in the excess-filled eighties. She experienced poverty as a struggling single mother and luxury as a socialite with ocean views. Through every reinvention, she maintained her infectious energy and optimism. Now she tells her story with brutal honesty and surprising humor, sharing what she learned about relationships, money, and growing older while refusing to act old.
Genres: american-fiction, 20th-century, adult-fiction, biographical-fiction, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, rags-to-riches
Setting: Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Malibu
Period: 1932, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s
88 pages · Hardcover · Shipnuck, Ink