NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A comedy author thinks she’s sworn off love, till a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a “smart, sophisticated, and fun” (Oprah Daily) novel from the writer of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.
“Full of dazzling banter and sizzling chemistry.”—People
“If you ever wanted a backstage pass to Saturday Night Live, this is the book for you.”—Zibby Owens, Good Morning America
Sally Milz is a sketch author for The Night Owls, a late-night dwell comedy present that airs each Saturday. With a few heartbreaks below her belt, she’s lengthy deserted the seek for love, settling as a substitute for the occasional hook-up, profession success, and an in depth relationship together with her stepfather to spherical out a satisfying life.
But when Sally’s good friend and fellow author Danny Horst begins relationship Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the present, he joins the not-so-exclusive group of proficient however average-looking and even dorky males on the present—and in society at giant—who’ve gotten romantically concerned with extremely lovely and completed girls. Sally channels her annoyance right into a sketch referred to as the Danny Horst Rule, poking enjoyable at this phenomenon whereas underscoring how unlikely it’s that the reverse would ever occur for a lady.
Enter Noah Brewster, a pop music sensation with a repute for relationship fashions, who signed on as each host and musical visitor for this week’s present. Dazzled by his charms, Sally hits it off with Noah immediately, and as they collaborate on one sketch after one other, she begins to surprise if there would possibly really be sparks flying. But this isn’t a romantic comedy—it’s actual life. And in actual life, somebody like him would by no means date somebody like her . . . proper?
With her eager observations and trademark capacity to carry complicated girls to life on the web page, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the neurosis-inducing and heart-fluttering surprise of affection, whereas slyly dissecting the social rituals of romance and gender relations within the fashionable age.
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