Book Review - Shining City
Shining City by Seth Greenland
Marcus Ripps is a middle-aged man who works for a toy company and is struggling to make ends meet. His son is almost ready for his bar mitzvah and is expecting a lavish one. His mother-in-law has moved in and needs eye surgery but has no insurance. She smokes pot for her eye condition AND she wants to bea pole dancer! His wife owns a small, not very profitable clothing store with a friend who seems interested in lots of thing OTHER than selling clothes.
With all of this going on he and his wife don't seem to have much in the way of intimate relations anymore.
As the story opens his boss announces he's moving the company to China and Marcus can either move to China or he's out of a job. Could things get any worse?
Marcus is really struggling over whether to move to China, his wife is definitely against it, but what will he do if he doesn't go?
Things liven up when his black sheep brother dies of a heart attack and leaves him his dry cleaning business. He begins to think this might not be so bad - dry cleaning could be a nice, steady business, but little does he know that it's actually a front for one of the most popular escort services in West Hollywood!
Life really gets interesting from there! The characters are well developed and the story moves right along at a nice pace. With the crazy cast of characters and the unexpected chain of events this makes for a really entertaining read.
this makes for a really entertaining read.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 07 October 2009 11:24 )
