Impersonation

✍ Scribed by Heidi Pitlor

• Book ID: 100373473
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 291 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781643751085

✦ Synopsis

**" Smart, funny, and provocative. As page-turningly readable as it is relatable." --Jessica Shattuck, author of ****The Women in the Castle **
TOGETHER, THEY MAKE THE PERFECT FEMINIST MOTHER
Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America's cultural definition of motherhood have left her a lapsed idealist. Lana Breban is a high-profile lawyer, economist, and advocate for women's rights with designs on elected office. She also has a son. Lana and her staff have decided she needs help softening her image in the eyes of the public and that a memoir about her life as a mother will help.
Allie struggles to write Lana's book as obstacles pile up: not enough childcare, looming deadlines, an unresponsive subject, an ill-defined romantic relationship on the verge of slipping away. Eventually, Lana comes to require far too much of...