Book description
“Look, you’re a nice girl but I don’t think we should see each other anymore.” The voicemail ends and I freeze in the dentist’s chair as I realize… I’ve just been dumped on live radio.
It took the most humiliating break-up for me to see that my life is in…
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Sharon M. Peterson’s The Do-Over is hilarious, and don’t we all need hilarious?
Perci has an overbearing ex-beauty queen mother and a boyfriend who’s “meh” enough about her to dump her on live radio in exchange for a pair of concert tickets. Perci responds with a New Year’s Un-Resolution list: no dating, no trying to please her mother.
In The Do-Over, we join Perci on a rollicking ride from one New Year’s Eve to the next. It’s sweet and hilarious, and heartwarming all at once. If you don’t walk away from this book feeling like there’s hope for humanity, well,…
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