Tomorrow the debut release of Kerry Reichs’ book, The Best Day of Someone Else’s Life comes out and I’m pretty excited for everyone to be able to check it out. I was fortunate enough to be able to read this book and I think it’s pretty good.
Check it out:
On Sale May 6, 2008
Let the marriage marathon begin…
In THE BEST DAY OF SOMEONE ELSE’S LIFE, debut novelist Kerry Reichs –daughter of thriller writer Kathy Reichs — mines anew the fascinating and bedeviling milieu where young women and their court of best friends play out the age-old marry-tale.
Kerry Reichs gives us a front-row pew on the BDOYL (Best Day of Your Life). It’s like eavesdropping on the intimate conversations of friends who really know, and truly get, each other. You’ll encounter touches of Jane Austen (marriage madness) and Bridget Jones (hilarious emails with a salesman at a tile company, the source of Vi’s wedding gifts). Still, this romance is all contemporary, all American.
Start with Kevin (“Vi”) Connelly, the wisecracking feminine star saddled with a masculine first name. (Her parents were expecting a boy.) Vi’s immersion into bridal bedlam happens at the tender and impressionable age of six. Decked out in a poufy Holly Hobbes dress, her hair curled, Vi serves as the flower girl for her aunt’s third (but not last) wedding, gleefully accepting the seductive lure of the limelight and the Big White Dress along with her basket of flower petals.
At 27, Vi is funny, friendly and on the lookout for Prince Charming. she has an apartment in Washington D.C., works as a wine buyer for a gourmet store, and has a posse of girlfriends who meet every Sunday at Clyde’s bar for therapy sessions. Ande she’s still a sucker for weddings.
Vi is pitched into wedding fever when three girlfriends from her hometown of Charlotte, N.C., ask her to serve as maid of honor –all within three weeks. Vi learns that you can’t count on the odds (sometimes three girls do all choose navy) and that outside the Marines, it’s hard to be sexy in navy. Especially the pricey and ugly navy reserved for bridesmaid dresses.
Ever gracious, Vi holds up her end…
- Negotiating a reconciliation after a raunchy bachelor party;
- Keeping up with a torrent of appropriate gifts for theme showers, and creative ways to fund their purchase — even at great self-sacrifice;
- Delivering merry toasts …and burnt toasts
- Enduring the comic trial (and more often, error) of her perpetual quest for a “plus-one” to see her through it all.
Following the Maid of Honor marathon, Vi looks forward to returning to D.C., her friends and a wedding-free year. But it’s not to be …in fact, it’s just the prelude to the invitation avalache ahead. So many weddings- it would send any sane woman over the edge or scurrying for the altar.
This novel is for anyone who has bought an awful dress with matching shoes or spent a fortune on shower and wedding gifts and the plane tickets just to get there. and anyone who dreams of the perfect wedding day, take heart. Kerry Reichs knows how to bring readers smack into — and out of– the wedding whirl in The Best Day of Someone Else’s Life.
About the Author:
Kerry Reichs graduated from Oberline College and Duke University School of Law and Institute of Public Policy. She practiced law in Washington D.C. for several years untili she took a sabbatical and discovered that sabbaticals agree with her. She now writes full time, splitting her time between Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, and is still trying to convince her two cats that driving across country is fun. Kerry has been in twelve weddings, has never married, and never worn any of thoswe dresses again. This is her first novel. Visit her at www.kerryreichs.com.
You can catch Kerry Reich at the following events coming up:
6:00-9:00pm
THE PARK AT 14TH
920 14 St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
Thursday, May 8, 2008
6:00-8:00 PM
FREE NORRIS GALLERY
456 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Saturday, May 17, 2008
2:00 PM
BORDERS BOOKS AND MUSIC
511 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
Thursday, May 29, 2008
7:00 PM
JOSEPH-BETH BOOKSELLERS
4345 Barclay Downs Drive
Charlotte, NC 28209
Be sure to check her out if she happens to be in your area.
I might check her out tomorrow since she will be in DC. I do like her mother’s Temp Brennan series that the show Bones was based off of, not that this debut looks anything like that.
Kerry’s debut novel sounds like a wonderful read.
If she is as interesting a writer as her Mother is I’m sure I’ll love the book.
Hey Gabriela,
No, this is so the opposite of that but still enjoyable. =)