Book summary

Newspaper columns by the author of the best-selling novel, "The Deep End of the Ocean".

Media reviews

"A beguiling collection of sometimes insightful, often amusing columns from a mother of five who is also a widow, a bestselling author, and not Erma Bombeck....The author proclaims that she and her audience are all those women who are not Martha Stewart..., but 'the rest of us'....Some of her reflections are funny, some aim for the jugular, some are genuinely moving..."