Bøger af Alli Frank

Kindergarten teacher and single mom Marjette Lewis faces a challenging school year when her teacher-best-friend Judy retires and an unexpected child shows up on the first day of school. When tragedy strikes Marjette's neighborhood, she must find a way through the loss and discover how to remake her life.

The Devil Wears Prada meets Class Mom in this delicious novel of love, money, and misbehaving parents.One of The Daily Skimm's Reads Pick for May 2020One of Good Housekeeping's 20 Best New Fiction Books of 2020Good Morning America Mother's Day in Quarantine Books to BuyOne of New York Post's Best Books of the Week in May 2020PopSugars Most Exciting Books for May 2020One of SheReads Most Anticipated Books of 2020"Delightful . . . Hilarious, cringe-worthy, and all too relevant. I ate this book up like a box of candy; you will too." --Tara Conklin, author of The Last RomanticsAll's fair in love and kindergarten admissions.At thirty-nine, Josie Bordelon's modeling career as the "it" black beauty of the '90s is far behind her. Now director of admissions at San Francisco's most sought after private school, she's chic, single, and determined to keep her seventeen-year-old daughter, Etta, from making the same mistakes she did. But Etta has plans of her own--and their beloved matriarch, Aunt Viv, has Etta's back. If only Josie could manage Etta's future as well as she manages the shenanigans of the over-anxious, over-eager parents at school--or her best friend's attempts to coax Josie out of her sex sabbatical and back onto the dating scene.As admissions season heats up, Josie discovers that when it comes to matters of the heart--and the office--the biggest surprises lie closest to home.