By Liza Palmer
Everyone is getting on with their lives other than Maggie. At 26, she's nonetheless serving espresso on the Beanery espresso residence, whereas her associates are becoming married, having infants, and having actual careers. Even Olivia, Maggie's ally from youth, is getting married to the health care provider with whom she lives. Maggie's roommate? Her puppy Solo (his identify says it all). the guy in Maggie's lifestyles? good there's not one, other than the fellow she has a overwhelm on, Domenic, who works together with her on the espresso store as a bus boy.Maggie and Olivia were most sensible associates because they have been in grade institution. either fatties, they befriended one another whilst nobody else might. Now grown-up, Maggie continues to be buying within the "women's part" whereas Olivia went and had gastric-bypass surgical procedure looking for the elusive dimension 2, the holy grail for women all over the place. So now Olivia's skinny and blonde and getting married, and Maggie's the fats bridesmaid. Ain't lifestyles grand? during this fantastic debut novel that's absolute to remind readers of Jennifer Weiner's reliable In mattress, Liza Orr is either witty and clever, giving voice to ladies far and wide who want for only once that they can ignore their weight.
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Emily and Bella, who have the hearing of bats, run out to greet me. Emily wears her hair short this month. At eight years old, she has the kind of courage about her appearance that most women never attain. She's blessed with flawless olive skin, feathery green eyes, and perfect, thick brown hair; it's getting harder and harder for me to remember the day Kate first brought her home from the hospital.
I mean Cole is Cole. I can't fathom how I'm being called self-centered while the person telling me about this character flaw is staring at herself in the bathroom mirror. Peregrine tears herself away [or one second to shoot me that matronly smirk of hers. Cole's voice oozes into the back room. I stare at Peregrine, not even turning around to see Cole. I can feel the back door swinging wildly from his entrance and exit. My eyebrows are so high they are now touching my hairline I wait. Peregrine steps out of the bathroom and straightens her shirt I am holding on to that can of chocolate syrup like it is my firstborn.
I hack away slowly and continue to the street, where my Fancy New Car awaits. For now, the best way to deal with this is not to deal with at all. I get in my Fancy New Car, leave my soon-to-be demolished life, and head toward my mom's house, which rests ~ the hills overlooking the Rose Bowl. Pasadena, a suburb just outside Los Angeles, bursts with scenes straight from the California postcards off the spinning rack. Children playing outside, blond beauties in convertibles, and incredibly fit people running for fun, a pastime I never quite bought into.