Full of It
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Lauren Peterson has a brand new life, but no idea what to do with it.
After calling off her engagement, she's single for the first time in years and ready to take on the world. Instead, she discovers that starting over isn't all it's cracked up to be.
When a spinster aunt she barely remembers bequeaths her a house in Portland, Oregon, Lauren intends to fix it up and flip it for a tidy profit. However, her big mouth (which is always a step ahead of her brain) has other ideas, and before she knows it, she's moving in.
As Lauren takes on the task of making the house into home, she discovers plenty of surprises and colorful neighbors to shake things up. From faulty wiring and a new sinkhole in the living room, to the salty curmudgeon next door, Lauren's new life is heading in unexpected directions. Her friends and family think she's making a grave mistake, but for the first time ever, it might not be Lauren's mouth, but her heart that will finally come out ahead.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wounding with words is the talent of this lopsided novel's heroine, so skilled at repelling her friends that she nicknames herself the Alienator. Unfortunately, the Alienator's powers work just as well on readers, who are likely to find her such unpleasant company that they won't stick around for the book's more satisfying second half. At 26, Lauren Peterson uses a breakup with her fianc as an excuse for an extended jag of self-pity about her single status, stultifying job and advancing age. She also feels abandoned by her parents, who've retired to Florida, leaving her to fend for herself in Portland, Ore. When Lauren's never-married great aunt dies and wills her a Craftsman house, Laura must figure out how to use it without reprising her aunt's chronically solo existence. While bitter and depressed fictional people are no fun to be around unless their gloom is accompanied by an acid wit, Lauren's is not ("Geez, it seems you're as short on patience as you are on hair," she snipes at her balding older brother). French (Going Coastal) eventually locates the warmth in her heroine and creates an agreeable fantasy about 20-somethings trying to find a meaningful adulthood.
