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Misa Rush earned an MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and a BS from Eastern Michigan University. After building a successful insurance business, she decided to pursue her first novel. She resides in Gilbert, Arizona with her husband and two children where, depending on the time of day, she’s either out developing her new real estate business, marketing books, carpooling kids, or trying to fit in a meeting before checking in at her children’s sporting activities where she takes her job as #1 fan very seriously.
Like all busy moms, she often does too much, schedules more on top of that, and stays up well past a respectable bedtime to sit before the seductive glow of her computer screen, typing out the stories in her head and strategizing ways to get everything done.
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“Rush’s chick-lit novel delivers an emotional if sometimes melodramatic journey that fans of the genre will appreciate, especially young-adult readers.”
– Kirkus Reviews
Rush’s debut novel weaves the lives of two seemingly charmed women into a tale of family secrets.
With dependable friends and a handsome, career-minded boyfriend, Karsen Woods is in a promising time in her life. She starts the first day of a new semester at college with only one regret: a disagreement she had with her mother before returning to school. Later that day, after Karsen resolves to patch things up, she learns that her mother has died in an accident. On the other side of the country, Addison Reynolds runs a successful fashion magazine and leads a sophisticated life filled with photo shoots, advertising campaigns and posh parties. Beautiful and powerful, Addison exemplifies modern womanhood, but the glossy image of her life betrays a secret she finally lets slip to a friend. When Karsen discovers that a piece of the puzzlelike heirloom jewelry her mother had commissioned for each member of the Woods family is mysteriously absent, she starts searching for answers; meanwhile, at the urging of her friend, Addison looks for the mother she never knew. Unbeknownst to each other, Karsen and Addison are intrinsically linked, pieces of a family portrait they can’t yet see in its entirety. Rush’s chick-lit novel delivers an emotional if sometimes melodramatic journey that fans of the genre will appreciate, especially young-adult readers. Female characters represent high social status and flawless femininity, and male characters fall neatly into the categories of worthy or unworthy of their women. Unfortunately, none of the characters break any molds, so the novel tends to be typical rather than surprising. Hallmarks of the genre—romance, friendship, disposable income, sex—pop up, although they’re sometimes flatly described, and Rush has a tendency to dramatize mundane scenes while relegating more interesting information to simple exposition. Yet the heartwarming, somewhat expected ending wraps up the story nicely.
The characters feel like photocopies from other works, but the plot marches forward to a satisfying resolution.
Pub Date: June 11, 2012
ISBN: 978-0615391588
Page count: 266pp
Publisher: ThINK Write Publications LLC
Review Posted Online: Nov. 13, 2012
Day job
Insurance and real estate broker
Favorite author
Emily Giffin
Favorite book
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Hometown
Richmond, Indiana
Passion in life
Maeli & Grady
Unexpected skill or talent
Back handsprings
FAMILY PIECES: Indie Reader Approved www.indiereader.com, 2013
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