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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Okay, so it's chick lit -- one of my first and few forays into this genre. But I found Amy's wisecracks (though she comes across as annoyingly whiny at times) and those of her best friend enjoyable. I really got caught up in the plot of the eccentric broken family, with the pieces available - dad Chickie, his mom, and his sister - wacky yet lovable, and the missing pieces -- the mother who abandoned her found to be a moral pygmy and the coolish maternal grandmother remarkably sympatico. Overall, I think the book was more enjoyable to listen to than it would have been to read it. (  ) MarthaHuntley | Jan 31, 2009 |  Ok book. Woman with a very difficult childhood, abondoned by her mother when a baby. Her father in prison, who is raised by a klepto grandma. She ends up being very smart, gets schlorships to private schools and then harvard. How she becomes a journalist for a large magazine and then looks for her mother. her best friend who is rich, and a boyfriend she breaks up with. But she gets back after she finally realizes what she wants, and seeks is a family. But not her mother. A family of her own. Slow at times,with lots of political crap she writes about. 5/29/07 (  ) cindyloumn | Jun 8, 2008 | Don't regret reading it. I expected more than was really there, though it was uplifting at times. (  ) ysmng | Jan 13, 2008 | I like Susan Isaacs. She always creates the same world - smart Jewish girl prevails, but you like hanging out with her characters and wish your friends were that funny... Except this book was actually a bit sadder than that because it was all about fundatmental lonliness, and how Amy is essentially family less - with her father who pretends to be 36 and her best friend who befriends her between marriages. So she comes to an age (nearly 30) where she breaks up with her boyfriend and finally decides to look for her mother, who abandoned her at birth, and we follow her journey. ( ) amf0001 | Dec 26, 2007 | The social worker must have picked up on this girl's mental strenghts when recommending her to a New England Boarding School @ age 14. She also seems to have strong characteristics of her grandmothers. Her mother was pathetic and still seems "lost." I was glad she and her boyfriend made it through the rough patches and ended up together. I also felt an odd attractions to her dad. (  ) saucecav | Aug 17, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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When Amy is fourteen, she gets a scholarship to a New England boarding school -- her exposure to the moneyed class. After Harvard and the Columbia School of Journalism, Amy becomes a political reporter for the prestigious weekly In Depth. While covering a political fund-raiser, Amy meets a college student who claims to be the son of one of the presidential candidates. It's precisely the sort of story that In Depth wouldn't deign to cover, but the idea of tracking down a lost parent and demanding recognition intrigues Amy. As she begins a search of her own past as well as the candidate's, she discovers a new and unimpeachable grandmother and a mother who is much more than she bargained for. Most important, she finally comes to understand the stuff she's made of and finds the perfect place to hang her hat in the world.
Bold, insightful, witty, and exhilarating, Any Place I Hang My Hat is a novel about one extraordinary young woman looking for a place to belong -- by one of the most compelling and beloved voices in contemporary fiction.
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