Rory McGovern has lived on the brink of financial disaster for the last decade. Her husband, Blake, is an actor who peaked as a teenager, and they scrape by on residual checks. But they were always happy until Blake started flaking out--on Rory, on their children and on adulthood in general. Since someone needs to support their family, Rory gives up her freelance design work and gets a full-time job at a hot new lifestyle website for kids called JeuneBug.
Desperate to keep her kids from realizing how fragile their family's situation is, Rory frantically tries to stay on top of school projects and birthday party plans, while also figuring out how to succeed at a weird job where everyone speaks in cryptic business lingo. The problem is, her two bosses are half her age, and no one else at JeuneBug actually has children. Can Rory be the grown-up in the office and the grown-up in her family, without having a mental breakdown? Will she be able to save both her career and her marriage?
From the authors of The Nanny Diaries, How to Be a Grown-Up is a fun, fast-paced look at modern life for a working New York mother. Rory's struggles are sometimes laugh-out-loud funny and completely familiar to anyone who's ever attempted to get a three-year-old to do something they don't want to do.
Perfect for those who enjoy Lauren Weisberger's books, or McLaughlin and Kraus's earlier titles, How to Be a Grown-Up is smart, fabulous reading. --Jessica Howard, blogger at Quirky Bookworm