FREE: Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack

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Paperback in almost like new condition. Has a very small tear on the front cover on the outside and a crease at the bottom of the front cover that you can see only if you hold the book flat and into the light.

In a wickedly funny and sexy literary debut, we meet the beguiling, beautiful Dora, whose unique voice combines a wry wit and vulnerability as she navigates the road between reality and fiction. Dora, named for Eudora Welty, is an indiscriminate book junkie--from Tolstoy to Twain, from Flaubert to bodice rippers--whose life has fallen apart. She's coping with a painful separation from her husband, scraping the bottom of a dwindling inheritance, and attracted to an aspiring playwright who seems to embody all that literature has to offer--intelligent ideas, romance, and an escape from her problems. Joining Dora in her odyssey is an assortment of memorable characters, including an elderly society hair-brusher, a heartbroken young girl, a hilarious off-the-wall female teamster, and Dora's apologetic mother, an ex-alcoholic now on the wagon, trying to make amends. Along the way, Dora faces some powerful choices. Between two irresistible men. Between idleness and work. And most of all between the joy of well-chosen words and the untidness of real people and real life.