A wickedly smart, utterly hilarious debut from a Southern Living
columnist--a mother of three, a Southerner married to a New Yorker,
an evangelical Christian, and a Democrat--about the absurdity,
chaos, and strange sacredness of her life on Manhattan's Upper West
Side. "The thing about being an evangelical Christian and a
Southerner living in New York City, raising her children in an
apartment where one of them sleeps in a closet, is that there are a
lot of people in your life to disappoint." So says Elizabeth
Passarella in her wry and witty debut, Good Apple. Among the people
she has to disappoint are her parents in Memphis, who are
bewildered by how their daughter went from interning for Ralph Reed
(it's a long story) to voting for Hillary Clinton; her parents'
friends, who don't understand how a family of five lives in a
two-bedroom apartment; and, perhaps most of all, her colleagues and
neighbors on Manhattan's Upper West Side, who are always surprised
to learn that their sophisticated, irreverent friend is an
evangelical Christian. Elizabeth keeps readers, no matter their
faith or their politics, laughing and nodding along in solidarity,
whether she is proposing the benefits of fighting with her husband
on New York City street corners; explaining what it was like to
grow up as a Christian with a Jewish dad; or recounting the surreal
and terrifying experience of finding a rat trapped in her bedroom
in her apartment on the eighth floor. Her love of the city is
infectious. Her transparency about highly embarrassing screw-ups is
refreshing. And her reminders of forgiveness and grace give us
hope. Elizabeth is the smart, funny, red-state, blue-state,
Southern, Christian New Yorker you didn't think even existed--but
now want as your best friend.
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