| Sarah Solomon is a single writer for a woman's magazine living and working in New York City. During a very rough week Sarah discovers that she is pregnant by her boyfriend of two months, Griffin, and then receives a wedding announcement from her fiftyish father, who is marrying a woman younger than herself. When she informs Griffin that she is expecting their child he treats her as if she has the bubonic plague and then weakly informs her that he is not ready to become a father.
Meanwhile, Sarah's older sister Ally has just discovered her husband Andrew cheating on her with her very own Pilates instructor in their suburban home. Devastated by Andrew's betrayal, and even further destroyed by the news that her husband secretly had a vasectomy (despite the fact that they "had been trying" to conceive for five years), Ally walks out on her husband. At the same time, Zoe, the half sister of Ally and Sarah, has flown to New York city from the West coast in search of her mother, who has vowed to stop her ex husband's impending wedding. Zoe has just been dumped by her boyfriend, Charlie, who told her that she had been giving out signals for some time that she wasn't ready for their relationship. Upon arriving in New York, Zoe runs into Daniel, a high school friend who had a major league crush on her back in the day. Suddenly, Daniel is looking pretty good to Zoe! Suddenly, all three sisters find themselves living in a single room together in their father's penthouse apartment. Zoe, in search of her mother in New York city, ends up crashing at her Dad's place. Ally, after walking out of her suburban home and her cheating hubby, finds herself at her father's doorstep. Pregnant Sarah has been given notice by her roommate that her fiance is moving in and Sarah must vacate the premises. Although Sarah and Ally have always been close, Ally has always taken a disciplinarian role with her younger sister, a fact that sometimes rankles Sarah. Ally has played the motherly role since the untimely death of their beloved mother. As the half sister, Zoe has never felt embraced or accepted by either of her sisters. But who could blame them? she asks herself. After all, their father left Ally and Sarah's mother to be with her mother. What kids wouldn't resent that? Suddenly, the three sisters find themselves bonding over cheating hubbies, morning sickness, dating advice, internet dating services and bad date stories. Although the girls have never felt they could depend on their unpredictable father, they are suddenly forced to realize that family is stronger than they ever imagined. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book? - humorous Time/era of story - 2000+ (Present Day) Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes GROUP of women story? Yes Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Ethnicity/Nationality Main Adversary Identity: - Male Age: - 20's-30's Profession/status: How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Average intelligence Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 4 () United States Yes The US: - Northeast Writing Style Sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of kissing Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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