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August 19, 2015

Today's Featured Title and Contest August 19, 2015
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Thursday, August 20th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of A WINDOW OPENS by Elisabeth Egan, which releases on August 25th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: A WINDOW OPENS by Elisabeth Egan

Fans of I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT and WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE? will cheer at this “fresh, funny take on the age-old struggle to have it all” (People) about what happens when a wife and mother of three leaps at the chance to fulfill her professional destiny --- only to learn every opportunity comes at a price.

In A WINDOW OPENS, beloved books editor at Glamour magazine Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays many roles (which she never refers to as “wearing many hats” and wishes you wouldn’t, either). She is a mostly-happily married mother of three, an attentive daughter, an ambivalent dog-owner, a part-time editor, a loyal neighbor and a Zen commuter. She is not: a cook, a craftswoman, a decorator, an active PTA member, a natural caretaker or the breadwinner. But when her husband makes a radical career change, Alice is ready to lean in --- and she knows exactly how lucky she is to land a job at Scroll, a hip young start-up that promises to be the future of reading, with its chain of chic literary lounges and dedication to beloved 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 proud of her new “balancing act” (which is more like a three-ring circus) until her dad gets sick, her marriage flounders, her babysitter gets fed up, her kids start to grow up, and her work takes an unexpected turn. Readers will cheer as Alice realizes the question is not whether it’s possible to have it all, but what does she --- Alice Pearse --- really want?

A WINDOW OPENS will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick for 2015.

-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to visit Elisabeth Egan's official website.
-Connect with Elisabeth Egan on Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to enter the contest by Thursday, August 20th at 11:59am ET.
This is a special newsletter for our Summer Reading Daily Contests, which will mail on select days through August 27th. This newsletter is separate from our weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter, which mails every Friday. You can subscribe to that newsletter here.

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