Emilie Summer

So I was thinking about The Speckled Beauty and Three Wild Dogs and the Truth before you mentioned them.

I had not thought about running with Sherman, although I think that's great.

So that's exactly what I would have suggested.

And I don't think these are too big, even though obviously Marcus Zusak, Rick Bragg are big names.

It's such a specific topic and such a specific type of book that I think the comps are naturally going to be fairly limited.

I think these are right on the money and I wish you the best of luck.

Okay, we need more.

dramedies, in my opinion.

So I'm glad that you have this one coming out in the pipeline, hopefully.

We'll all keep our fingers crossed.

The first book that I thought of is This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper.

It's such an excellent book.

It's just the exact right mix of comedy and drama and just a messy family dynamics.

But I think it's too big and too old, so that doesn't really take us where we need to go.

The next book I thought of is called We're All Damaged by Matthew Norman.

also too old, so that doesn't really help us.

One that I think is good, timely, and could work is Help Wanted by Adele Waldman for the workplace setting of it all.

This one feels right to me.

So maybe after the ones that you've listed, start here.

In terms of an additional possibility, I often mention Linda Holmes's books.