Real Happy Family, Caeli Wolfson Widger
Real Happy Family, Caeli Wolfson Widger
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Real Happy Family

Author: Caeli Wolfson Widger

Narrator: Caeli Wolfson Widger

Unabridged: 11 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/04/2014

Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life


Synopsis

Part-time actress, full-time party girl Lorelei Branch isn’t famous yet, but she’s perfected a Hollywood lifestyle full of clubbing, fashion, and the latest juice cleanse. When Robin, her sister-in-law and agent, throws a plum job her way, Lorelei jumps at the chance and auditions to be the new girl on television’s hottest reality show, Flo’s Studio.Enter Colleen, Lorelei’s pill-popping mother, who wants nothing more than to see her daughter win the fame and glory she never had a chance to pursue herself. But Lorelei’s dream of becoming the next reality star is dashed when she loses the spot on Flo’s Studio to a stunning African woman. In an attempt to defend her daughter against what she calls a rigged contest, Colleen goes ballistic and delivers a racist rant on live television, sparking a national media frenzy. Lorelei flees the limelight, humiliated and broke, with her slacker boyfriend, Don, and heads for Reno, where she begins to self-destruct.Meanwhile, the rest of the Branch family starts to come apart at the seams. Colleen and her husband, Carl, are quietly drifting away from each other. Darren, Lorelei’s older half-brother, is stuck in Florida working on a contentious film set while his wife, Robin, continues the tedious regimen of fertility drugs meant to help them conceive a child. Desperate to bring the family together again and make things right, Colleen hatches a plan to stage an intervention for Lorelei on the reality show Real Happy Family. Soon the entire Branch family is entangled in a mission to bring the prodigal daughter back into the fold.Will Lorelei ever forgive Colleen? Will Real Happy Family air its most sensational intervention yet? All roads lead to a seedy Reno hotel room, where a reality TV crew is waiting.

About Caeli Wolfson Widger

Caeli Wolfson Widger lives with her family in Santa Monica, California. Her work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine, and the Madison Review, as well as on NPR and CBS Radio. She earned her MFA from the University of Montana and has taught creative writing at the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, University College London, and Johns Hopkins University. Real Happy Family is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert

Danger Will Robinson. I’m about to get nostalgic on your asses, and I really hope you’ll indulge me for just a minute. If you’re looking for my review, it’ll begin in the next paragraph. But I honestly can’t think of another way to do this. What I’d like to do is take this opportunity to say thank y......more

Goodreads review by Molly

It was both awful and fun. Like some of the other early reviewers, I got it from Kindle First, mainly because it looked like the most interesting of the selections (as I'm not generally interested either in Thrillers or YA). The initial good thing about it was the readability. The prose slips by qui......more

Pleasant Surprise When I first chose this book from the Kindle monthly free choices, I did so only because it seemed more interesting than the other three choices. I wasn't expecting a great read, especially considering the category was "Women's Fiction," I was expecting a cheesy, Oprah bookclub-esqu......more

Goodreads review by J.J.

Once I started reading, I could not put this book down! I read it in a day, only begrudgingly putting it down to make dinner. The characters are well-developed and immaculately interwoven. I wish I were teaching a California Literature class so I could assign it. The commentary about the friction be......more

Goodreads review by Gillian

This book is just a fun, entertaining read......more