Lying Down with Dogs

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A no-nonsense tale of a college girl a celebrity encounter a sexy restaurant wealthy men savvy women and many moments of self-discovery.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Valerie Imparato's corporate career path is nearly sideswiped as she becomes indoctrinated into the racy lifestyles of the affluent </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>sometimes famous</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> patrons in her coveted server position at one of Philly's top restaurants-until the fortuitous wisdom of her Italian grandmothers sheds light on Val's relationships with men sex and money.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Will Val finally hook up with Billy Joel? How will spending her birthday alone in Mexico turn out? Will she fire her therapist? </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It all comes full-circle for the college girl turned marketing exec from South Philadelphia in this novella </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>based on a true story.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Valerie transitions from the office to a sexy restaurant and back she must face some of the same businesspeople she serves lobster fra diavolo or a dirty martini to a few nights a week. Through lavish dinner parties and some eye-opening experiences inside the boys' club plus laugh-out-loud interactions with Val's sharp-tongued restaurant co-workers and other comical characters Valerie gets a front row seat to a diametric lifestyle that eventually changes the way she views the world.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For anyone who's spent time working in a restaurant and especially those who've been on the dating scene </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lying Down with Dogs</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a humorously anecdotal fast-reading novella with a few surprises. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All the major themes play out in this little book of big characters: beauty trade-offs friendships and the question of who's using who.</span></p>