Entertaining Disasters

This zany novel will make you appreciate your own fallen souffles that much more. Redbook. The writer known only as FW lives high on the food chain in the heady realm of L.A.s culinary journalism scene. She waxes poetic about her hip home gatherings thinly veiling the identities of her Hollywood guest list. At least it seems that way to her readers. In reality FWs been inventing the dinner parties she writes about because social paralysis sets in at the very thought of a real guest in her fabulousor is it shabby?hillside home.. Enter the glossy food magazine editor new in town who wants an invitation to one of her bashes and the panicstricken journey from fantasy to reality is on . . . . Entertaining Disastersat turns whimsical and deeply affectingchronicles the struggle FW faces in the week before she hosts her first real dinner party in ages. At the same time her estranged sister threatens to drop by her husband takes off and even more disaster looms in this funny satirical novel (Booklist) that offers sharp startling observations in a unique and very human voice (Elle).