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Nights and Weekends.com
"Palmer’s easy-going style may make Seeing Me Naked entertaining—but
her talent for creating realistic, likeable characters makes
it memorable...Seeing Me Naked is a sweet and clever novel that
will definitely make you laugh—but it might just make you cry,
too. It’s funny yet touching, and it’s surprisingly real. Seeing
Me Naked definitely a great read—and Liza Palmer is definitely
an author to watch."
Seeing Me Naked (Publisher's Weekly)
Liza Palmer. Grand Central/5 Spot, $13.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-446-69837-5
Palmer follows up her mirthful debut, Conversations
with the Fat Girl, with a subtly sophisticated romance that
outclasses most of the genre's other offerings. Elisabeth Page
is a 30-year-old pastry chef at L.A.'s restaurant du jour whose
perpetually knotted stomach has roots in any number of sources:
her father, Ben, a two-time Pulitzer-winning novelist and “the
kind of cultural icon that doesn't exist anymore,” with whom
“every conversation is a chess game”; childhood sweetheart Will
Houghton, whose globe-trotting as a journalist has stunted their
ill-defined relationship; the head chef from hell at her all-consuming
job; and her patrician family's way of “bonding through blood
sport.” But relief begins to filter in as Elisabeth's dalliance
with beer-drinking, salt-of-the-earth basketball coach Daniel
Sullivan turns into a fulfilling relationship and her culinary
career takes an unexpected turn. If it sounds chick litty, it
is, but consider it haute chick lit; Palmer's prose is sharp,
her characters are solid and her narrative is laced with moments
of graceful sentiment.
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