The Bowl Is Already Broken: A Novel

Promise Whittaker the diminutive but decisive acting director of the Museum of Asian Art is pregnant again--and thats just the beginning of her problems. Her mentor the previous director has suddenly quit and is on a dig in Chinas Taklamakan Desert. Her favorite curator has dropped a priceless porcelain bowl once owned by Thomas Jefferson down the museums steps. Another colleague has been embezzling from the museum to pay for her fertility treatments. And her far too handsome ancillary director is clearly up to no good. Promises offbeat efforts to hold everything together make her a character who in the words of the Newark Star-Ledger youll be falling in love with before youve turned the first page.