Review by Booklist Review
Vivien Armstrong Gray spent years working her way up the ladder to become one of the top investigative reporters in the business, and it only takes a split second to have it fall apart: while working on an exposé, Vivien is shot in the rear end, and the video ends up on YouTube. In quick succession she is not only humiliated but also jobless and pregnant at 41, while the baby's father is embedded as a reporter in Afghanistan. With few choices left, she returns home to Georgia to wait out her pregnancy and write scathing articles ridiculing suburbia under a pseudonym for a magazine in New York. While following her sister and her niece and nephew around, observing life, Vivien finds plenty of fodder for her articles. But as time passes, Vivien realizes she's become deeply entrenched in people's lives, so the articles become harder to write. An honest, realistic story of family, love, and priorities with genuine characters.--Hatton, Hilary Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Life in Atlanta's suburbs becomes a hot topic for a mom-to-be who knows more about news than diapers in Wax's bittersweet potboiler. After investigative TV reporter Vivien Armstrong Gray gets shot in the butt while chasing a story, she becomes an overnight sensation, but that doesn't keep the newsroom from adding attractive new talent to her department. Seeing the writing on the wall, Vivien quits, but soon learns that finding a job isn't so easy for a newly pregnant 41-year old. She relocates to suburban Atlanta and lands a column writing about suburbia from an outsider perspective. She finds plenty of fodder in her family, but her questions about the death of her sister's husband may have serious consequences. Vivien's an easy protagonist to love; she's plucky, resourceful, and witty-the perfect outsider's guide to the SUV and bake sale zoo. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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