![]() ![]() And, as Margo tries to juggle love, lust, and guilts, with B.B. Meanwhile, fringe anorexic B.B., erstwhile friend of Margo, remains off-center with unresolved grief, her hate/need of Andrew, and traumatic family-past relationships: she's hovering near a breakdown. Thus, Margo is soaking in her hot-tub in her "funky upside down house" when Andrew, B.B.'s attractive ex, slides in on a neighborly visit they'll soon be lovers. The women's men will criss-cross, of course. "B.B."-lost her ten-year-old son in a car crash, divorced her journalist-husband, now clings to twelve-year-old daughter Sara and oil heiress Clare is from Texas, with a philandering ex and a kid named Puffin. ![]() As for the mothers, they're a rather vacuous and tiresome lot: mother-of-two Margo (solar condo designer) counts up the 17 men she's slept with (including 21-year-old Eric) and has been divorced five years from Freddy, who wanted a Stepford Wife real-estater Francine-a.k.a. In her popular books for young people, Blume has often worked empathically within a teen frame of reference and here, though the prime focus is on the highs and histrionics of a trio of 40-ish, divorced professional women in Boulder, Colorado, it's their kids whose common-denominator fears and angers ring true. ![]()
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