Book Review: Best Seller by Martha Reynolds & Giveaway

When you’re looking for a book that will have you saying “I can relate to that,” check out Martha Reynolds’ Best Seller. The novel is relatable to me in many ways, namely that the main character, Robin Fortune, is struggling to figure out how she fits into the world. Aren’t we all? I have to say, that in the world of digital falsehoods, reading stories set in times before we made superficial connections with others has me somewhat nostalgic. The world of the writer can be a lonely one. And as someone who tends to have one thing happen after another, I can totally understand a character whose road winds and curves!

Title: Best Seller

Author: Martha Reynolds

Publication Date: June 27, 2014

Genre: General Fiction/Coming of Age

Synopsis

Set in New England at the time of the American Bicentennial, BEST SELLER is the poignant story of a displaced young woman struggling to figure out who she is within the context of her hometown and the carefully masked dysfunction of her family.

“Everything can be fixed by writing a check.” Words to live by for Robin Fortune’s wealthy father, until he can’t buy her way back into college after she’s expelled for dealing pot. Now he chooses not to speak to her anymore, but that’s just one of the out-of-whack situations Robin’s facing. At nineteen, she feels rudderless, working in a diner by day and sleeping with a buddy from high school by night – all so strange for her because she was always the one with the plan. While her college friends plotted how to ensnare husbands, she plotted a novel, which she scratched out into a series of spiral-bound notebooks she hides in the closet. But now, there’s nothing. No vision, no future, no point. In fact, the only thing she feels she has to look forward to is that her favorite author, Maryana Capture, is paying a visit to the local Thousand Words bookstore. Robin surmises that if she can convince Maryana to help her get her novel published, she’ll finally get herself back on track. Except that life never takes a straight path in this intensely satisfying coming-of-age novel.

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Author Bio
Martha Reynolds ended an accomplished career as a fraud investigator and began writing full time in 2011. She is the author of five novels, including the award-winning Chocolate for Breakfast (her debut novel), Chocolate Fondue, Bittersweet Chocolate, and the Amazon #1 bestseller Bits of Broken Glass. Best Seller is her latest release. Her essays have appeared in Magnificat magazine.