Tiny Imperfections
-
-
4.1 • 26 Ratings
-
-
- $6.99
-
- $6.99
Publisher Description
The Devil Wears Prada meets Class Mom in this delicious novel of love, money, and misbehaving parents.
One of The Daily Skimm's Reads Pick for May 2020
One of Good Housekeeping's 20 Best New Fiction Books of 2020
Good Morning America Mother's Day in Quarantine Books to Buy
One of New York Post's Best Books of the Week in May 2020
PopSugars Most Exciting Books for May 2020
One of SheReads Most Anticipated Books of 2020
"Delightful . . . Hilarious, cringe-worthy, and all too relevant. I ate this book up like a box of candy; you will too." --Tara Conklin, author of The Last Romantics
All's fair in love and kindergarten admissions.
At thirty-nine, Josie Bordelon's modeling career as the "it" black beauty of the '90s is far behind her. Now director of admissions at San Francisco's most sought after private school, she's chic, single, and determined to keep her seventeen-year-old daughter, Etta, from making the same mistakes she did.
But Etta has plans of her own--and their beloved matriarch, Aunt Viv, has Etta's back. If only Josie could manage Etta's future as well as she manages the shenanigans of the over-anxious, over-eager parents at school--or her best friend's attempts to coax Josie out of her sex sabbatical and back onto the dating scene.
As admissions season heats up, Josie discovers that when it comes to matters of the heart--and the office--the biggest surprises lie closest to home.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Frank and Youmans pack their debut with drama and exposition, sidelining romance in favor of a prolonged glimpse into the glamorous, ultra-competitive world of San Francisco private schools. Josie Bordelon, director of admissions for Fairchild Country Day School, has an extremely stressful personal life: her beloved Aunt Viv is ill, her daughter is graduating from high school, and her best friend is on her case to start dating again following a two-year dry spell. Enter Ty Golden, who Josie believes to be a gay prospective Fairchild parent and with whom she strikes up a very flirtatious friendship. Josie's family connections, especially her angst-ridden relationship with her daughter (which is sorely affected by Josie's lingering issues with her own mother), are far stronger and more believable than the romance, which is not given enough time to develop. The glitzy, high stakes world and gossipy narrative voice will put readers in mind of Crazy Rich Asians, but the story gets bogged down in overexplaining the ins and outs of the admissions process, and none of the many subplots vying for readers' attention is given sufficient room to breathe. Readers will enjoy the atmosphere, but wish for more cohesion.
