Beverly Hills Adjacent Book

During pilot season, June Dietzâ??s husband Mitch Gold becomes another manâ??a man who doesnâ??t notice her delicious Farmers Market homemade dinners, who mumbles responses around the tooth-whitening trays in his mouth, who is consumed with envy for his fellow television actors, who pants for a return phone call from his agent. And who wants to be married to an abject, paranoid, oblivious mess? Possibly not June, whose job as a poetry professor at UCLA makes her in but not of Los Angeles, with its illogical pecking order and relentless tribal customs. Even their daughter Noraâ??s allegedly innocent world isnâ??t immune from one upsmanship: while Mitch is bested for acting jobs by the casually confident (and so very L.A.) Willie Dermot, June is tormented by Willieâ??s insufferably uptight wife Larissa and the other stay-at-home exercisers in the preschool.Could Rich Friend be the answer? Smart, age-appropriate, bookishâ??and a wildly successful television producerâ??Rich focuses on June the way nobody has since she moved to Los Angeles, and thereâ??s nothing for June to do but wallow in what sheâ??s been missing. But whatâ??s the next step? How does a regular person decide between husband and lover, family and fantasy?Set in a Los Angeles you havenâ??t read about before, Beverly Hills Adjacent is that rare thing: a laugh-out-loud novel with heart.Read More