Eye to Eye

A charming narrative told through the eyes of two best friends forced apart by the paths their lives take them. Ronnie is barely making it in L.A. with her buff boyfriend, Earl, on a bartender's and tutor's paycheck. And Doris, having just broken up with her unambitious, easygoing boyfriend, faces her new life as a liberal professor of American literature at a conservative college. In its quixotically roundabout but self-reflective way, Eye to Eye discusses identity--what makes us who we are and why none of it really matters, yet does. It has a lot of great tongue-in-cheek moments, interspersed with surprising insight regarding race and gender. It is a book that takes a good look at a reality that is neither sip-a-Manhattan ditzy nor hard-core sociology-major difficult to understand. A very different kind of chick-lit book, and one that many will find themselves chewing on after the last page.

Coming to Red Dress Ink December 2008.

--review by Vicki So, proofreader