ASK AGAIN LATER
Jill A. Davis
Harper
ISBN: 978-0-06-087597-8
January 2008
Chick Lit

Emily is a lawyer on the fast track to make partner at her firm. Of course, this means working sixty-three days in a row without a break. She is very good at her job, but she is beginning to wonder if her world isn’t a bit unbalanced. After all, she is thirty years old, shouldn’t she have a life?

Then she receives a phone call from her mother, who informs her that she has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. So Emily decides to leave her career behind and she quits her job of four years. Leaving the firm also means leaving Sam, her on-again, off-again boyfriend. She tries to tell him that their jobs is the real reason their relationship never worked. Instead of agreeing, Sam blames Emily for not being committed to him.

Emily moves in with her mother and offers her support. Her mother has always been somewhat of a drama queen and a cancer diagnosis has not dampened her spirit. She also takes a job at her father’s law firm as a receptionist. It is a ploy on Emily’s part to find a way to become closer to the father who left their family when she was just a young child. Dealing with both parents on a daily basis is a journey Emily may find more difficult than she had planned.

Ms. Davis has written a delightful and perceptual novel of family dynamics. The reader will also meet Emily’s sister, Marjorie, who is a guilt-free shopaholic, her therapist, Paul and her friend, Perry, all instrumental in portraying an insightful and humorous look into family, work, love and friends.

Charlene McConnell
Rating: 4