Tru Newman has an enviable life, a famous best friend, a wealthy husband, and well-behaved twin daughters. Her biggest problem to date is living in the shadow of her overbearing ex-beauty-queen mother. All of that comes to a crashing halt when Tru discovers that her husband has been secretly unemployed for more than three months. When the economy crashes, Tru is forced to go back to work and chooses an unlikely profession: she starts a call-girl service featuring women over 40. Tru’s travails are told in a light, breezy tone combined with an endless stream of up-to-the-minute pop-culture references. A deeper novel might try and make connections between Tru’s work as a madam and her husband’s work as an investment banker, but this frothy tale is pure wish fulfillment. After all, although the novel is clearly set in 2010, Tru lives in a world where long-term married couples easily forgive major betrayals to have hot sex in the elevator, young men pay to sleep with fortysomething women, and Cher arrives at a reunion to make everyone’s problems disappear.
This was a cute book. The beginning of the book really kept you interested. If you are looking for a light read, try this one.
