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[[Category:RWA Award Finalists]]
[[Category:2004 Releases]]
* '''Author''': [[Eileen Rendahl]]
* '''Publisher''': [[Pocket]]
* '''Year''': 2004
* '''Editor''': [[Micki Nuding]]
* '''Setting''': 
* '''Amazon Listing''': [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743471148/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 Do Me, Do My Roots]

== Book Description ==
It's about healing. 

After a couple of rough years, Emily is finally getting things back together. She doesn't need to re-do everything at work three times, her young daughter's soccer uniform is almost always clean the day of a game, and meals are pretty darn reliable, too. But hey, becoming a widow at thirty-three kind of knocks the starch out of you. 

It's about family. 

Then Emily's dad has an Event (only her mom would call a minor heart attack that -- what is it, a bar mitzvah?). Next, her sister Claudia's ex-husband starts stealing their kids' Ritalin for the high -- and wouldn't you replace it with The Pill to teach him a lesson? (His unexpected, uh, frontal development was just a howlingly funny bonus -- honest.) And then Emily's relentlessly sensible oldest sister, Leah, dumps her businessman fiancé for a rock musician. 

It's about never letting them see your gray. 

Now Jake, Emily's best friend, seems to be spending a lot of time at her house. Which she likes way too much. Which is kind of confusing. So what's a girl to do, but call an emergency meeting of the sisters' monthly hair-color-and-gossip session, to make the world seem sane again?

== Recognitions == 
* [[2005 RITA® Winners & Finalists|2005 RITA® Finalist]] for [[RITA®: First Published Book Category|First Book]]
* [[2005 RITA® Winners & Finalists|2005 RITA® Finalist]] for [[RITA®: Mainstream Fiction with a Central Romance Category|Novel with Strong Romantic Elements]]