However, it's a really fun book the way it is. Kelsey is a wannabe book editor working as an assistant at a big NYC publisher, and getting hit by a car one morning completely changes her life. Not because she is injured -- she's basically fine -- but because she briefly shares a hospital room with Georgina, a middle-aged Girl Boss who just wants to be left alone to die of kidney failure in peace. But Kelsey is bad at accepting "no" for an answer, and a buddy comedy ensues. The kind where the main characters don't like each other very well (think Lethal Weapon, with Danny Glover as Georgina and Mel Gibson as Kelsey) but end up bonding over a lot of mishaps that the audience finds very funny.
Also, there's a romance, because Georgina's estranged son is hot, and Kelsey is cute, and this is a cute summer book. But the main focus is the reluctant friendship between Kelsey and Georgina.
I didn't love this book, but I enjoyed it a lot and will be hanging onto my copy.
Particularly Good Bits:
My life rolls out in front of me like an art film that nobody understands (p. 14).
Independent doesn't have to mean alone, right? (p. 34).
She's practically bouncing up and down, wearing her excitement like a fancy new party dress (p. 85).
But then it occurs to me that where one lives so often determines how one lives (p. 157).
"If you learn nothing else from my life, learn this. Don't wait to love the people you love" (p. 363).
If This was a Movie, I Would Rate It: PG for discussions of dying, kidney dialysis, the car accident and resulting injuries, etc. No cussing or smut or violence.
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