L.a. Woman
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Descripción editorial
Ever moved to a city you didn't know, for a guy who wasn't worth it…all because you thought you were in love?
Sarah Walker has.
She's just moved to L.A. and changed her whole life in anticipation of cohabitation with her fiancé, Benjamin. But he stalls, again. Pushed to the limit, the stability-seeking Sarah snaps and actually finds herself dumping him. Now she's in free fall: no fiancé, no job. No idea what to do next.
According to her new roommate Martika, Sarah is now in the perfect place to start life in L.A.
Before she knows it, Sarah becomes Martika's project, getting pulled headlong into a crazy, chaotic world of nightclubs and day jobs, where the only constant is change. Sarah's about to discover that "single" isn't a dirty word. Not that she'll be staying single for long….
About the author
CATHY YARDLEY graduated from UC Berkeley with a double major in Art History and Mass Communications. In the span of her seven years since graduating, she has been an advertising lackey, an advertising sales lackey, a crazed production manager, a bored marketing manager, a bemused budget analyst, and a temp. Strangely, neither major provided useful information for any of these pursuits. As a writer though, she’s grateful to finally see the point to all that schooling. And all those jobs. And, basically, her life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Yardley takes readers on a fast-paced tour of the joys and perils of single life in Los Angeles in her first novel. At the urging of Benjamin, her workaholic fianc of four years, Sarah Walker has left Northern California for the mayhem of L.A., only to find out that he will not be joining her for several months. With her crummy entry-level job, she can't handle the rent on her own, so she decides to share her apartment with Martika, a charming and tireless party queen the polar opposite of na ve Sarah. Their friendship is tentative at best, but when Sarah freaks out and quits her job, dumps selfish Benjamin and chops off all her hair, Martika springs into action and the two really bond. Sarah gets a makeover and is pulled into a whirlwind of clubs, cocktails and men, but Benjamin keeps popping up, and she wonders if she's really cut out for the life of a single girl. Sarah's smalltown shtick gets tiring, but Martika and other characters, like Sarah's best friend Judith, an uber-organized exec who is navigating the murky waters of online infidelity, pick up some of the slack. Although everything about this novel the requisite fabulous gay friend, the chapters named for the Doors' song titles, the far-fetched ending should be annoying, Yardley throws it all together with enough brio to make it a fun book to bring to the beach on either coast.
