The New Old Me by Meredith Maran
After the death of her best friend, the loss of her life\u2019s savings, and\xa0the collapse of her once-happy marriage,\xa0Meredith Maran\u2014whom Anne Lamott calls\xa0\u201cinsightful, funny, and human\u201d\u2014leaves her\xa0San Francisco\xa0freelance writer\u2019s life for a 9-to-5 job in Los Angeles. Determined to rebuild not only her savings but herself while relishing the joys of life in\xa0La-La land,\xa0Maran writes \u201ca poignant story, a funny story, a moving story, and above all an American story of what it means to be a woman of a certain age in our time\u201d\xa0(Christina Baker Kline, number-one\xa0New York Times\u2013bestselling author of\xa0Orphan Train).