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Reviews"Any new Susan Isaacs book is a cause for celebration, and this adroit, witty, warmhearted novel, with a heroine you'll cheer for until the final page, is an absolute treat." -- Jennifer Weiner, author of Goodnight Nobody and Good in Bed, "Nobody does smart, gutsy, funny, sexy women better than Susan Isaacs.... A merrily observant, moving, and -- as always with Isaacs -- very entertaining novel." -- The Washington Post, "Any new Susan Isaacs book is a cause for celebration, and this adroit, witty, warmhearted novel, with a heroine you'll cheer for until the final page, is an absolute treat."-- Jennifer Weiner, author ofGoodnight NobodyandGood in Bed, "A witty, warm-hearted novel, with a heroine you'll cheer for until the final page...an absolute treat." -- Jennifer Weiner, author of Goodnight Nobody, "Any new Susan Isaacs book is a cause for celebration, and this adroit, witty, warmhearted novel, with a heroine you'll cheer for until the final page, is an absolute treat."-- Jennifer Weiner, author of "Goodnight Nobody" and "Good in Bed"
SynopsisNow in paperback, Isaacs's humorous and poignant "New York Times" bestseller about a young woman whose search for her mother becomes a search for a place to belong. RWell-written, very funny, and incredibly smart.S--"O, The Oprah Magazine.", Amy wasn't born to fortune. Her mother abandoned her before her first birthday and her father couldn't handle anything as conventional as parenting. Amy worked for her luck. At age fourteen, she got herself a scholarship to a New England boarding school, then to Harvard, then to Columbia School of Journalism. She's smart, she's enterprising, but after a few years as a reporter for a prestigious magazine, she doesn't know who she is or how to connect.