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050 00$aPS3602.E76378$bL58 2017
082 04$a813.6$222
100 1 $aBerry, Lauren,$eauthor.
245 10$aLiving the dream :$ba novel /$cLauren Berry.
250 $aFirst Holt Paperbacks edition.
260 $aNew York :$bA Holt Paperbacks Henry Holt and Company,$c2017.
300 $ax, 305 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 $a"Emma is a rising star at the marketing firm she works at as a "creative," but would have trouble describing what exactly it is she does all day. She pours most of her actual creative energy into a popular blog that all of her friends agree is brilliant, but she has yet to make a cent on it. Clem is a massively talented screenwriter just back from New York, where she picked up a fancy graduate degree in film. But until she convinces an agent to take on her masterpiecescript, she's stuck hostessing at the bar she frequented as an undergrad, and the only calls she's getting are about bills past due and overdrawn bank accounts. In their ironclad friendship both girls find a reliable break from the post-collegiate absurdities and indignities that seem to abound in life right at the moment they feel they should finally be getting it all together. With a rotating cast of lovably insufferable friends, from Emma's fabulous DJ and ladies' man roommate to Clem's painfully ordinary and predictable childhood chum, the girls wind their way through the twists and turns of aging parents and terrible bosses and regrettable one night stands, unforeseen setbacks and blessings that present as anything but, and remind each other that while their ships might not have come in yet, the after work drinks are cold and the company can't be beat"--$cProvided by publisher.