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Lovers of I HAVE NO IDEA How She Will It and Where'd GOING, Bernadette will cheer as of this "fresh, funny take on the age-old struggle to own it all" (People) and in what happens when a wife and mother of three leaps at the chance to match her professional destiny - and then learn every opportunity comes at a cost. In A Windows Starts, beloved books editor at Glamour mag Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively genuine, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our cultural media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) era. Like her fictional forebears, Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice takes on many roles (which she never refers to as "using many hats" and wishes you wouldn't, either). She is a mostly happily married mother of three, an attentive girl, an ambivalent dog owner, a part-time editor, a faithful neighbor, and a Zen commuter. She is not: a make meals, a craftswoman, a decorator, a dynamic PTA member, a natural caretaker, or the breadwinner. However when her partner makes a radical career change, Alice is preparing to lean in - and she has learned exactly how blessed she actually is to land employment at Scroll, a hip, young startup that assures to be the continuing future of reading, with its chain of fashionable literary lounges and commitment to precious classics. The Holy Grail of working mothers - an intellectually satisfying job and a happy personal life - seems suddenly within reach. Despite the disapproval of her best friend, who owns the local bookstore, Alice is pleased with her new "managing act" (which is more like a three-ring circus) until her dad gets unwell, her relationship flounders, her babysitter gets completely fed up, her kids learn to increase up, and her work can take an unexpected convert. Listeners will cheer as Alice realizes the question is not whether it's possible to own it all, but what does she - Alice Pearse - want?
