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Amanda Bright@home by Danielle Crittenden
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Amanda Bright@home (edition 2003)

by Danielle Crittenden

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Maybe you know Amanda. Maybe you are Amanda. Whoever you are, you will love Amanda. An important, shrewd, and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel that answers the question: What happens when Bridget Jones or the Sex and the City girls get married and have babies? Nothing ever prepared Amanda for this: not her elite college degree, not her brainy friends, not her mother the feminist heroine. At age 35, she finds herself at home with two children, mopping spills and singing The Itsy-Bitsy Spider. It doesn't help that her husband's face is all over national television or that her best friend is dating a billionaire or that every woman she knows seems to have a plastic surgeon and an interior decorator. While everyone else is racing up the fast track, it's getting hard for Amanda to remember why she left work in the first place. Set amidst the glamor and power of boom-time Washington, D.C., Amanda Bright is a novel about status and ambition marriage and jealousy and a woman's struggle to discover the things that matter most. Amanda Bright@Home will become an anthem for a generation of women that is learning that success is not always found at the office."… (more)
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Title:Amanda Bright@home
Authors:Danielle Crittenden
Info:Warner Books (2003), Hardcover
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I'd had higher hopes for Amanda Bright -- she made decisions in her life, but lacked the convictions to believe in them. I'm sure this probably rang true for many women, either dissatisfied with staying home, or dissatisfied with working. I just kept expecting Amanda to grow up a bit, or at least act more like an adult.

I read somewhere this first appeared as a serial in the Wall Street Journal. I got the feeling that the author was a feminist wrestling with the ideas of feminism herself. ( )
  bookczuk | Sep 19, 2010 |
Cute book, easy read, quick read. At times I really identified with the main character - sometimes staying at home is less than wonderful, sometimes the house looks terrible, sometimes we have to really eek by with the finances. But I don't know .. the book still felt just okay to me. ( )
  Brandie | Feb 10, 2008 |
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Maybe you know Amanda. Maybe you are Amanda. Whoever you are, you will love Amanda. An important, shrewd, and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel that answers the question: What happens when Bridget Jones or the Sex and the City girls get married and have babies? Nothing ever prepared Amanda for this: not her elite college degree, not her brainy friends, not her mother the feminist heroine. At age 35, she finds herself at home with two children, mopping spills and singing The Itsy-Bitsy Spider. It doesn't help that her husband's face is all over national television or that her best friend is dating a billionaire or that every woman she knows seems to have a plastic surgeon and an interior decorator. While everyone else is racing up the fast track, it's getting hard for Amanda to remember why she left work in the first place. Set amidst the glamor and power of boom-time Washington, D.C., Amanda Bright is a novel about status and ambition marriage and jealousy and a woman's struggle to discover the things that matter most. Amanda Bright@Home will become an anthem for a generation of women that is learning that success is not always found at the office."

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