By Abbi Waxman
Berkley, 2020. 352 pgs. Fiction
Jessica Burnstein is a successful attorney whose only daughter is about to leave for college. They travel to the East Coast together for a college tour where she's hoping Emily will get a sense of the direction she'd like to go in, and she hopes that voluntarily traveling with a teenager won't be as crazy as it sounds. Emily is feeling all the pressure of needing to start her life soon and have it all together. But she doesn't know what she wants to do, and her lack of direction isn't helped by growing tensions at her school. Jessica knows that these final years with her daughter are the end of an era, and she hopes they will be able to share a few more important memories together before her daughter leaves home.
Jessica's feelings and impressions as a working mother trying to balance her career and raise a child may hit pretty close to home for any readers in the same boat, and everyone will be able to relate to Emily's angst over trying to figure out what to do with her life when she's not really sure what she wants, especially as the jumping off point draws closer and closer. Waxman does an apt job of describing a time of tensions and hopeful anxiety that many go through as they transition into new stages of life. Although Waxman typically incorporates romances into her novels, this book focuses instead on the story of a mother and her daughter as they face new horizons together.
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