From Publishers Weekly
Bonanno cleverly explores materialistic values while taking a realistic look at a single-parent career woman struggling with family responsibilities and her own need for identity. When 18-year-old Lynn Ann Loomis loses her adored father, she inherits his insurance business and household, takes charge of a ditsy mother, two younger sisters and a treacherous office staff duo. Soon enough, Lynn Ann is also saddled with a no-account husband with whom she is "crazy in lust," a drunken, narrow-minded mother-in-law and two children. Eventually divorced, Lynn Ann parlays her experience into a high-powered Wall Street reinsurance job, buys a Summit, N.J., home, sends her children to private school. Her son's cry-for-help behavior leads her to therapy with Beth, a counselor who has problems of her own. Lynn Ann thinks all she needs is Mr. Right, but comes to see how the business world feeds ambitions and anxieties while starving personal needs. Bonanno ( Angela Lansbury ) brings a distinctive voice and a credible point of view to her arresting story of a plucky woman in a competitive world.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Lynn Ann at 18 is forced to grow up too quickly in her small Missouri town when she has to take over her father's insurance business on his sudden death. She is good at it, but not so successful with family matters. Friction with her spendthrift mother and despair with an alcoholic husband finally drive her to New York City. There, after a struggle, she is again a successful business woman--but a lousy mother to her bulemic daughter and pyromaniacal son. Enter Beth, their private school counselor, a warm, generous woman who risks her own sweetheart and peace of mind to save these children. The contrast between the business worlds of Missouri and New York, and between the hard-hitting career woman and the equally tough but caring guidance counselor make for good reading despite the ending, which becomes happy too quickly for credence.
- Marion Hanscom, SUNY at Binghamton Lib.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Marion Hanscom, SUNY at Binghamton Lib.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
