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Finding Clarity: A Mom, A Dwarf and a Posh Private School in the People’s Republic of Berkeley
by Laura Novak
- “Novak is as funny as Janet Evanovich, as clever a plotter as Sue Grafton, and as deft in creating compelling characters as Laura Lippman.”
- “Laura Novak may be the Erma Bombeck of mystery writers. The pace and wit of her writing makes Finding Clarity a delight from cover to cover.”
Clari Drake was once a former hot shot TV reporter of ample proportions who took San Francisco by storm. Now, Clari is a middle-aged, misfit mom who tops 200 pounds and wears Birkenstocks with woolen socks in the city everyone loves to laugh at, quirky Berkeley, California. The fur flies when Clari takes on the ruling class at her son’s elite academy where the beloved headmaster is let go and a loser from Las Vegas takes his place. Clari suspects the wealthy folks running the school are up to financial malfeasance and strange social shenanigans. So she teams up with an impossibly odd posse to right some wrongs and reclaim her glory days with the biggest story of her career. But in the process, Clari causes major problems for the rich power brokers whom she loves to hate, while working in weekly visits to Weight Watchers. Join Clari as she answers the questions: Who am I? Where do I belong? And what’s in the new Ikea catalogue?
“One part Carl Hiaasen, one part Lewis Grizzard, and a whole lot of Susan Isaacs…Laura Novak hits a home run by finding clarity, and hilarity, in Berkeley.”
About the Author
Laura Novak is a career journalist, debut novelist. She has worked for ABC News in London and New York, for Fox News in the Bay Area, and for a small radio station in Sacramento where she sat next to a guy named Rush Limbaugh. She has written extensively for The New York Times on health, business and the arts.
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The Kayson Cycle