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Multiple Choice

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There was a time when March Monroe thought that she and her daughter, Olivia, would never really cut the cord. They'd just upgrade to a wireless connection. Now, Olivia is heading off to college, and March hasn't even told her that she's decided to continue her own higher education. So it's hard to say who's more shocked when they run into each other at a local radio station where, it turns out, they're both student interns.

Adding to the fireworks are a fourteen-year-old son who probably won't be speaking to March for much longer, a slightly tired marriage, a midlife crush, and a quantum physics class that just might put March over the edge.

This new novel from the author of Must Love Dogs is an effervescent story of family life that will strike a chord with women of all ages.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      When March Monroe's daughter, Olivia, goes off to college, March decides it's the perfect opportunity to finish her own much delayed degree. As if being a middle-aged coed isn't daunting enough, March's life becomes even more complicated when she discovers that she and Olivia have both signed up for the same internship at a local radio station. Add to the mix a precocious teenage son, Jackson, and a depressed parakeet, and March quickly starts to feel overwhelmed. In the voice of Carrington McDuffie the characters are sharply defined by Olivia's haughty pout, March's strained patience, and Jackson's lovable yet brutal honesty. Highlights are the multiple-choice questions that begin each chapter, read with wry humor. J.G.K. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 31, 2004
      A midlife back-to-school adventure propels a suburban housewife into an unlikely radio career in Cook's third novel, set on the South Shore of Massachusetts. March Monroe is the spunky protagonist who left college life behind to marry a civil engineer named Jeff and raise a daughter and son while working as an aerobics instructor, party planner and finally a life coach. With Olivia off to college and Jackson not far behind, March finally takes her husband up on his longstanding offer to send her back to school. The degree requires an internship, and when March explores her limited options she finds herself inadvertently working together with Olivia as fellow interns at a local radio station. Exploiting the friction between March and Olivia, handsome programming director David Callahan proposes that the two do a mother-daughter call-in show that quickly takes off and becomes popular. Cook wrings some humor out of family life, March's mild flirtation with Callahan and the back-to-school experience. But the story meanders, detouring into asides about family pets, the generation gap, the stresses of being overscheduled and other typical suburban family disasters. Despite (or because of) the stabs at domestic insight, the cluttered result reads like warmed-over Erma Bombeck. Agent, Lisa Bankoff.
      5-city author tour.

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