Romantic Comedy: The bestselling Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick by the author of RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE

And maybe, because I liked irony and plot twists as much as the next writer,

I’d expected the snake to be green like the rubber prop, but her scales had a pattern of reddish-orange diamonds over paler orange, and the audience cheered after the handler placed her around Noah’s shoulders then moved away,

senselessly, I mumbled, “You can leave the mollusks.”

A third child inspired in me more gratitude for my own circumstances than envy for Amy’s.

but the truth was that he read it only at night and rarely got through more than a few pages before falling asleep;

It made him seem vain and insecure in ways that were understandable rather than laughable.

I believed the perceptions undergirding my sketches arose from my being invisible or at least underestimated, including being mistaken for someone nicer than I was.

Sally, apparently “lone wolf” is something of a misnomer. A wolf who strikes out on her own tends to do so only temporarily, when moving on to the next stage, before finding a new pack.

It was the syntactical equivalent of dressing up as a sexy zombie for Halloween. From my third season on, I’d embraced my anger and vulgarity. I’d been a gross zombie.