PAMELA RIBON reads and signs her novel YOU TAKE IT FROM HERE
Los Angeles-based author Pamela Ribon (Why Girls Are Weird) launches her new novel You Take It from Here!
Pamela Ribon is the bestselling author of the novels Why Girls Are Weird, Why Moms Are Weird, and Going in Circles. A writer for stage, screen, and television, her credits include the Emmy Award-winning Samantha Who? Visit her popular blog at pamie.com, or find her in the dictionary under "muffin top." (That is not a joke.)
“Hilarity and heartbreak compete, but ultimately hope wins in this thoroughly delightful story about what it means to be a woman, a mother, a best friend. I can’t wait to pass this book along to every woman who ever mattered to me. Pamela Ribon has a huge, fresh voice, and this is her best book yet.”
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– Joshilyn Jackson, NYT bestselling author of Gods in Alabama and A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
How far would you go for your best friend?
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Just because you’d give your best friend everything
doesn’t mean she has to take it.
On the heels of a divorce while juggling the demands of life-coaching L.A.’s craziest families, all Danielle Meyers wants is a vacation with her sassy, Southern, life-long best friend, Smidge—complete with umbrella cocktails by an infinity pool. But it turns out Smidge’s plans involve neither cruise ships nor piña coladas: she’s got an itinerary set for the rest of her life, one that is quickly and unfairly coming to an end.
Smidge unexpectedly reveals a diagnosis of terminal cancer, followed by an unusual last request. “After I’m gone, I want you to come in and finish the job, Danielle. Marry my husband. Raise my daughter. But we can never tell them this was the plan. I’m gonna teach you how to be me. You’re gonna be Smidge 2.0.”
Smidge’s small town Louisiana world is one in fierce opposition to what Danielle has chosen for herself. Besides the overwhelming responsibility of raising a daughter who just stepped foot into the miserable world of being a teenager, Danielle isn’t one for playing the social butterfly, nor being the center of attention. She can’t even make Smidge’s famous lemon bars!
As Danielle wrestles with her decision while keeping Smidge’s secret hidden, she finds herself torn between being true to her best friend’s wishes and being honest with herself. Because the bottom line is: when your best friend is setting you up on a date with her husband, it might be time to step up and become the bossy one for a change.
In the spirit of Beaches and Steel Magnolias, You Take It From Here is an honest, hilarious and heartbreaking novel that ultimately asks: How much should we actually sacrifice for the ones we love the most?
