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Twenty-four-year-old elementary schoolteacher Annie Harper is left out in Tacoma, Washington, when her boyfriend, David, is shipped overseas. Wrestling with the complex thoughts tied to his absence, she starts writing a confessional memoir, imagining it as a moving account of “the woman at home.” But instead of writing a touching account of life on the home front, a tale of integrity and patience peppered with earnest love letters and fat, juicy tears, Annie lives life without David in ways she didn’t anticipate. She spends additional time with her best ally, Gus, starts volunteering at an area retirement center, and adopts a pet chicken. Even while she misses David enormously between his sparse e-mails and choppy phone calls, she struggles with conflicted feelings about their long-distance relationship, her own identity and genealogy, and the ideological underpinnings of an war that’s exerting such a force on her behalf life. Told through raw, rough draft chapters of Annie’s memoir-in-progress, Miss Harper Can Do It is a funny and poignant story of what it means to be loyal versus what it means to maintain love. In Annie, Berentson has rendered a quirky young woman who copes with loss and stress in unexpected ways, only wavering briefly on the brink of self-pity rather than losing her love of life.
