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Atria Books, July 2012
eBook, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1451623844
ISBN-13: 9781451623840
Description
Reality TV—Jane Austen Style Meet the Harcourts of Chevy Chase, Maryland. A respectable middle-class, middle-age, mixed-race couple, Harold and Forsythia have four eminently marriageable daughters—or so their mother believes. Forsythia named her girls after Windsor royals in the hopes that one day each would find her true prince. But princes are far from the mind of their second-born daughter, Elizabeth (AKA Bliss), who, in the aftermath of a messy divorce, has moved back home and thrown herself into earning her PhD. All that changes when a Bachelorette-style reality television show called The Virgin takes Bliss’s younger sister Diana as its star. Though she fights it at first, Bliss can’t help but be drawn into the romantic drama that ensues, forcing her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about love, her family, and herself. Fresh and engaging, Imperfect Bliss is a wickedly funny take on the ways that courtship and love have changed—even as they’ve stayed the same.
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"Imperfect Bliss is the perfect summer read. Susan Fales-Hill, a magnificent storyteller, has written a poignant and piquant comedy of manners that will make Jane Austen fans swoon. Delicious!"
-- Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife
"If Candace Bushnell and Zadie Smith had a literary love child, the result would be Imperfect Bliss."
-- Keli Goff, The GQ Candidate
"The perfect summer read. Susan Fales-Hill, a magnificent storyteller, will make Jane Austen fans swoon." --Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife
"Imperfect Bliss is a hoot! Featuring a heroine who becomes entangled in the nutty world of reality TV, it's a fast, fun read." --Sarah Pekkanen, author of The Opposite of Me and These Girls
"If Candace Bushnell and Zadie Smith had a literary love child, the result would be Imperfect Bliss." --Keli Goff, author of The GQ Candidate
"Imperfect Bliss's romantic heroine ultimately finds her epiphany in a journey through family discord, reality TV productions, and a candlelight dinner for two...this is reading as alluring as the best French perfume."
"Imperfect Bliss is a hoot! Featuring a heroine who becomes entangled in the nutty world of reality TV, it's a fast, fun read." --Sarah Pekkanen, author of The Opposite of Me and These Girls
"If Candace Bushnell and Zadie Smith had a literary love child, the result would be Imperfect Bliss." --Keli Goff, author of The GQ Candidate
"Imperfect Bliss's romantic heroine ultimately finds her epiphany in a journey through family discord, reality TV productions, and a candlelight dinner for two...this is reading as alluring as the best French perfume."
-- André Leon Talley, Editor At Large, Vogue
"Fales-Hill channels Jane Austen in a bawdy sendup of today’s landed gentry...but the hilarious hijinks of the Harcourts hide more poignant truths about these strong-willed women. She whips an old-fashioned comedy of manners into a stylish, sharp-edged satire."
-- Publishers Weekly
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