In her latest novel, the author of Another You combines intensely realistic description and an effortless command of mood to examine the treacherous difference between love and fascination -- between what we know about other people and what we think we know.Dara Falcon is someone other people think they know. Charismatic and theatrical, she has no sooner arrived in a New England town than she is playing footsie with one man, inveigling a diamond ring from another, and getting her new friend Jean to sell her a car for one dollar.
As Ann Beattie follows Dara's chaotic progress through the lives of Jean and her family, she braids subplots and vibrant characters into a work that is compassionate, tartly funny, and teeming with life.
