Deep Down True

From the author ofShelter Me, a novel about having your heart in the right place even when everything else isnt Newly divorced Dana Stellgarten has always been unfailingly niceeven to telemarketersbut now her patience is wearing thin. Money is tight, her kids are reeling from their dads departure, and her goth teenage niece has just landed on her doorstep. As she enters the slipstream of postdivorce romance and is befriended by the town queen bee, Dana finds that the tension between being true to yourself and being liked doesnt end in middle schooland that sometimes it takes a real friend to help you embrace adulthood in all its flawed complexity.