Sex as a Second Language - Alisa Kwitney
by Zia ~ October 8th, 2006. Filed under: Books.
I picked this up on the latest library jaunt, thinking it would be chick littish — you know, something light and engaging and fun to read. Oh horror of horrors, I was wrong. It was that very worst breed of book: chick lit purporting to be something more than it is. Katherine Miner is a washed-up actress whose husband has left her. She and her son live across the hall from a controlling mother, she teaches ESL to make ends meet, and her father (a spy who left his family when she was a child) reappears. But wait, you ask. Where’s the love interest? Oh he’s there all right, in the form of another CIA agent pretending to be from Iceland so he can take her ESL class and get close to her father.