SARALEE ROSENBERG

Una comedia divertida, ingeniosa e inteligente, protagonizada por un personaje memorable. Claire, una actriz de tercera fila, se dirige a Miami a hacer un casting para culos y, en pleno vuelo, el anciano pasajero que va a su lado muere. El fallecido resulta ser Abe Fabrikant, un multimillonario con cuya familia Claire entabla relacion. A partir de ese momento, ya nada es lo que parece

When destiny called, she pressed 1 for more optionsWith the name Robyn Fortune, shouldnt luck be a sure thing? Instead, black clouds love me. All I did was show up at a family bar mitzvah and cue lightning . . . this huge storm blew in.My mom announced she was leaving my dad and moving in with me. (Perfect! More competition on JDate.) I found out my boss planned to fire me. (Help wanted: Be the exclusive makeup artist for a two-faced network news star.) My exs gambling debts left me near bankruptcy. (Please buy our wedding gifts on craigslist.) But, good news. I was offered money to date a man who had worse luck than me. (Dear Visa, I hope you appreciate that I said yes.)If not for my friend Rachel, I would have chickened out. Instead, I went to his apartment, spotted an old photo, and realized it was HIM! The boy I was mad for in college but never got to meet. And get this! Turns out our paths had been crossing since birth. Coincidence or karma? Our finagling families wouldnt talk . . . until the day destiny sent me on a wild ride that became my long lost spiritual journey. Ladies, take my advice. When fate knocks, answer the damn door!

Saralee Rosenbergs compelling debut novel, told in a warm, wise and endearing voice, is about sisters, mothers and daughters, and loss, sacrifice and love.When Shelby Lazarus returns home to Long Island in the midst of a family crisis, she is forced to face all the issues from which she originally ran awayher mothers untimely death, her fathers second marriage, her sisters neuroticism, and her own lifes path. When her Jewish mother cannot help but meddle in her daughters lives from the afterlife, it seems all that Shelby needed was a little help from above. This poignant novel, peppered with some wonderful humour, is sure to hit the heart of the womens fiction market.