Magnolia Wednesdays
Mar 17, 2010
Magnolia Wednesdays
Author: Wendy Wax
Publisher: Berkley Trade; Original edition (March 2, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425232352
ISBN-13: 978-0425232354
Vivien gets up to go to work and 24 hours later finds herself not only shot in the butt while on assignment, but pregnant at 41 and replaced by a younger, sexier version of herself at the television station. Then her shooting ends up on YouTube.
This is how Vivien starts her week.
What's a girl to do who needs health insurance, is unemployed and every interview starts with "How did that bullet in your butt feel?" Well, she finds herself moving back in with her sister in Georgia and immersing herself in the lives of her niece, nephew and her sister's dance studio.
What her family doesn't know is that she's secretly taken a job as a columnist with a gossip paper in New York that ridicules suburbia. Not only does the fact that she's gone from being a journalist to an anonymous gossip columnist horrify her - but the entire idea of living in suburbia with people she has nothing in common with is freaking her out.
What happens next is that we get to watch Vivien slowly discover that suburbanites are also people. Kind, fun, loving people.
But what will happen when her family, and her foreign correspondent boyfriend, finds out not only about the baby, but that she's been making fun of them for months in print form?
A fun, fast read that keeps you interested the entire way through.
