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* [[2005 RITA® Winners & Finalists|2005 RITA® Finalist]] for [[RITA®: First Published Book Category|First Book]] | * [[2005 RITA® Winners & Finalists|2005 RITA® Finalist]] for [[RITA®: First Published Book Category|First Book]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:05, 22 July 2021
- Author: Eileen Rendahl
- Publisher: Pocket
- Year: 2004
- Editor: Micki Nuding
- Setting:
- Amazon Listing: 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?
