Beverly Hills Adjacent

Jennifer Steinhauer and Jessica Hendra

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During pilot season, June Dietz’s husband Mitch Gold becomes another man—a man who doesn’t notice her delicious Farmers Market homemade dinners, who mumbles responses around the tooth-whitening trays in his mouth, who is consumed with envy for his fellow television actors, who pants for a return phone call from his agent.  And who wants to be married to an abject, paranoid, oblivious mess?  Possibly not June, whose job as a poetry professor at UCLA makes her in but not of Los Angeles, with its illogical pecking order and relentless tribal customs.  Even their daughter Nora’s allegedly innocent world isn’t immune from one upsmanship: while Mitch is bested for acting jobs by the casually confident (and so very L.A.) Willie Dermot, June is tormented by Willie’s insufferably uptight wife Larissa and the other stay-at-home exercisers in the preschool.

Could Rich Friend be the answer? Smart, age-appropriate, bookish—and a wildly successful television producer—Rich focuses on June the way nobody has since she moved to Los Angeles, and there’s nothing for June to do but wallow in what she’s been missing.  But what’s the next step? How does a regular person decide between husband and lover, family and fantasy?

Set in a Los Angeles you haven’t read about before, Beverly Hills Adjacent is that rare thing: a laugh-out-loud novel with heart.

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CHAPTER 1The trouble with starring in a network television show about a bipolar dentist who is looking for love on the Internet is that no matter how deft the flossing puns, or how diverting the high jinks with your Puerto Rican hygienist, it all comes down to the time slot. For Mitch Gold, this was the unpleasant axis upon which his world spun."Hello?""Mitch Gold, please""This is Mitch.""Hello, Fiona from Creative Artists here. Can you hold for Tim Zelnick?""Sure.

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“Crisp, fast and sharp, Beverly Hills Adjacent has an ear for the crazy cadences of Hollywood, marriage and modern life.”--Meg Wolitzer, author of The Ten-Year Nap

"A smart novel about a Hollywood couple trying to survive TV pilot season."--People StyleWatch

"The authors' sense of humor gives this book plenty of pep."--Publishers Weekly

"A laugh-out-loud novel about the skewed mores and hungry hearts of Hollywood."--People

 "Steinhauer and Hendra have a gift for Hollywood vapidspeak."--New York Times Book Review

"Like Little Children gone Hollywood...a terrific setup...the writing is so consistently good, at times lyrical...very funny scenes and memorable characters."--Los Angeles Times

 

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Jennifer Steinhauer and Jessica Hendra

JENNIFER STEINHAUER is the Los Angeles bureau chief of The New York Times, where she began working as a copygirl in college. Her reporting on Hurricane Katrina won the Newswoman’s Club of New York Front Page Deadline Reporting Award in 2006. JESSICA HENDRA is the author of How to Cook Your Daughter: A Memoir. She is married to a working television actor.  Beverly Hills Adjacent is the first fiction for each.  They live in the real west L.A., in Rancho Park.

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Beverly Hills Adjacent
Jennifer Steinhauer and Jessica Hendra

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St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
April 2010
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ISBN: 9780312638368
ISBN10: 0312638361
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 320 pages
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May 2009
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ISBN: 9780312551827
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