Synopses & Reviews
Maybe you know Amanda. Maybe you are Amanda. Whoever you are, you will love Amanda. An important, shrewd, and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel that answers the question: What happens when Bridget Jones or the Sex and the City girls get married and have babies? Nothing ever prepared Amanda for this: not her elite college degree, not her brainy friends, not her mother the feminist heroine. At age 35, she finds herself at home with two children, mopping spills and singing The Itsy-Bitsy Spider. It doesn?t help that her husband?s face is all over national television or that her best friend is dating a billionaire or that every woman she knows seems to have a plastic surgeon and an interior decorator. While everyone else is racing up the fast track, it?s getting hard for Amanda to remember why she left work in the first place. Set amidst the glamor and power of boom-time Washington, D.C., Amanda Bright is a novel about status and ambition marriage and jealousy and a woman?s struggle to discover the things that matter most. Amanda Bright@Home will become an anthem for a generation of women that is learning that success is not always found at the office."
Synopsis
- AMANDA BRIGHT@HOME was published in Warner hardcover in 5/03 and hit the "Washington Post bestseller list. It is the first novel ever to be serialized by "The Wall Street Journal, where it appeared weekly and continued on its Web site throughout summer 2001.- Crittenden is a provocative author who was profiled in "Vanity Fair as one of America's most important new thinkers on women and family even as "Mirabella called her "the most dangerous feminist in America." She has been published in "The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and "Washington Post, among others.- Crittenden is a frequent commentator on women's issues, appearing on the "Today show, "20/20, and "Nightline. She is a regular guest on many talk radio stations, including NPR.