Ellen Meister---Mixing It Up

Anyone who reads my upcoming November title, So Much For My Happy Ending, will learn that I’m a sucker for stories that combine the fun and frivolous aspects of life with the more serious and borderline traumatic aspects. After all, that’s how life is. Even when things are at their worst there’s always something to laugh about and when your life is a bowl of cherries you still have to deal with the pits. That’s why Ellen Meister’s new book Confessions Of The Applewood PTA interests me. At first glance it looks like a light read, certainly the cover would suggest as much. In the story Applewood’s elementary school is pegged as a potential site for the filming of George Clooney’s next movie. In order to make this tantalizing possibility into a reality three very different women (Ruth, Lisa and Maddie) come together to figure out a way to convince the Hollywood producers that Applewood is a cut above their other location choices. While planning and strategizing these women form a strong friendship that they all come to cherish and rely on.

A light read, right? Except Ruth’s husband suffered a debilitating stroke which has had a devastating effect on their marriage. And Lisa is trying to deal with her emotionally abusive alcoholic mother who wants to move in with her while she sobers up. Maddie is sure that her husband is having an affair and in retaliation decides to have an affair of her own. So George Clooney isn’t the only thing these women have on their mind but the fact that he is one of the things on their mind promises to keep this book from getting too schmaltzy or unrealistically heavy.

Dreaming about a movie star one moment and dealing with your dysfunctional family the next…sounds like life.

Anyway, you should check out her blog and see who she’d like to cast as each of her characters should this book be turned into a movie. Lisa Kudrow has already professed to be a big fan of the novel so who knows? Maybe Meister will get her movie and her dream cast. She could be the mom who gets to meet George!


Kyra Davis
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