Looking for something light to lighten the current political mood is Rachel to the Rescue by the fabulous author Elinor Lipman. She is one of my favorite authors and her books are always so appropriate to the topic she is writing about. She know how to use humor to make a point. IF you have been using the late night TV news satire programs to make it through the last four years this book is for you.
Rachel has left her parents in New York and moved to Washington DC looking for work. She gets a job in the Trump White House in an obscure office. Though she is happy to be working she is incredulous about what is happening in the Trump administration and what her job entails. In a late night indiscretion she sends an inappropriate email and is fired from her job. Leaving the White House and crossing the street on her way out she is hit by a car. As she is recovering from the incident in the hospital and finding out what happened following her release is the stuff of comic relief.
Lipman takes us on a journey that really plays on all the craziness of the last few years and how this absurd scenario could possibly have almost really happened. I think that is what makes this novel so much fun. You can almost imagine it happening. There are roommate friendships, romance and intrigue.
Elinor Lipman has done it again with a terrific entertaining satire on current day.
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