Blog Entries

City of Girls is about Vivian Morris, told in firsthand account by Vivian herself. The story starts with Vivian addressing a woman who has written her to find out what she had meant to her father. After a long but entertaining and intriguing life story, her moving to New York twice, her sexual escapades, her girl crush on Celia, the death of her brother, and finally finding love with a man whom she never touched, we find out the relationship between this woman’s father and Vivian. 

In this timely retelling of the classic Little Women, we see Meg and Jo as modern women navigating their relationships in a 21st century world. Meg is dealing with her need to live up to her mother's reputation of being able to "do it all," thus creating small rifts in her marriage. Jo is trying to figure out her life after being let go from her newspaper employer and figure out how to juggle her foodie blog and the new relationship with her Chef boss.

Idun’s Orchard has been in the Lund family for five generations, and cider-maker Sanna Lund can’t imagine living anywhere else. She’s perfectly content spending her days tending the orchard with her father and experimenting with new blends of cider made from their heirloom apple trees. But Sanna’s cider isn’t selling like they’d hoped and business isn’t exactly booming at the orchard. With only the two of them, and Sanna’s father getting on in years, can they really keep going the way they always have?

The Joy Luck Club is a group of Chinese women who banded together as they navigated a new country, coming together to share their life experiences and help one another through new ones. After one of the members passes away, her daughter June is invited to be a member in her mother’s spot. Upon her first meeting, June is greeted with a truth from her mother’s friends that she wasn’t prepared for: she must go to China to meet her twin half-sisters, the very sisters her mother believed had died long ago before she fled the country.

Tiffy needs a new flat, and preferably one without suspicious mold growing behind the toilet. Leon, a nurse on the night shift, has a flat he’s rarely in and could use some extra cash. Why not rent out the apartment overnight to someone with a regular 9 to 5? Someone like Tiffy? They share a flat. They share a bed. But they’ve never met. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it works for them. Tiffy leaves for work before Leon gets off of his shift, and Leon, in turn, leaves to start his day right before Tiffy comes home for the evening.