"Sally Franson is a world class entertainer. She can finesse a serio-comic moment in a way that leaves you catching your breath. Deft and delicious, this book is a flat out delight machine. A heart opener, a page turner, and a true 'originell!' I laughed out loud, I ugly cried, and I never, ever wanted it to end." — Meg Ryan, actor, writer, directorA charming, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny novel following an American woman competing on a Swedish reality show in an attempt to discover her roots. Paulie Johansson has never put much stock in the idea of family: she has her long-term boyfriend Declan and beloved best friend Jemma, and that's more than enough for her. Yet one night on a lark, she lets Jemma convince her to audition for Sverige och Mig, a show on Swedish television where Swedish-Americans compete to win the ultimate prize: a reunion with their Swedish relatives. Much to her shock, her drunken submission video...

An ambitious young woman navigates the slippery world of advertising—and the equally slippery question of who she wants to be. Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada in this sharply observed and savagely wise debut novel. Casey Pendergast is getting hers. Once a book-loving English major, Casey has put her talent for storytelling to work at a top ad agency, where her career has skyrocketed: She knows what people want, and how to give it to them. So when Casey's hard-to-please boss assigns her to a top-secret campaign that pairs literary authors with corporations hungry for upmarket cachet, Casey is thrilled to merge her current and former interests. Crisscrossing America to woo her former literary idols, Casey brings together some unlikely combinations: An Internet-famous poet shills Italian athletic wear, a short-story writer crafts a campaign for a plus-size clothing chain, a reclusive nature writer signs away her life's work to a...