{"product_id":"proof-of-progress","title":"Proof of Progress","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Castellano's sophomore effort, following \u003ci\u003eSave What's Left\u003c\/i\u003e is funny in the way a best pal known for her great sense of humor is. Reliably witty, refreshlingly snarky, original yet comfortingly familiar, Maria's acerbic punch lines are nonetheless often delivered with a soul-baring sigh. If Annie Papadopolous doesn't want to be Maria's BFF, plenty of readers will.\" ⎯ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I loved this book, filled with deliciously nutty, bite-sized vignettes that go down so easy. Like Grace Paley, Elizabeth Castellano is a master of low-key humor refracted through an eye for the absurd. Her voice is cynical without turning hopeless, comedic but never straying into satire. Pure pleasure.\" ⎯ \u003cb\u003eCatherine Newman, N\u003ci\u003eew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWreck \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSandwich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The superb Elizabeth Castellano has written a delicious, hilarious, and completely original (fictional) memoir by an actress who has to honor a book contract from 40 years ago. And it's a doozy. The components of a complicated life⎯love, family, and history, unspool in surprise, delight, heartache, and pain. I didn't want this novel to end.\" ⎯ \u003cb\u003eAdriana Trigiani, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe View from Lake Como\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Like some gorgeous literary hybrid of \u003ci\u003eThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eHacks\u003c\/i\u003e in the best possible way . . . This is a brilliant, poignant, hilarious, heartbreaking, delightful ride that should not be missed.\" ⎯ \u003cb\u003eJessica Soffer, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is a Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTomorrow There Will Be Apricots\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eSave What's Left\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Irreverent and unexpectedly tender, this story takes neighborhood feuding to new heights and finds beauty and reinvention in unlikely places. A wickedly funny debut.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I loved every page of Save What's Left--this voice, this eye, this story, its originality and wit, its offbeat social satire, its loopy cynicism, and a whole town's good intentions gone awry. Fighting city hall has never been so delicious. Brava, Elizabeth Castellano. I can't wait for your next book.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElinor Lipman, author of Every Tom, Dick \u0026amp; Harry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSave What's Left\u003c\/em\u003e is an absolute delight. It's laugh out loud funny and full of heart. I loved it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Castellano's wickedly funny debut unfurls in miserable yet gleeful detail the soul-sucking nightmare of owning a house on the Long Island oceanfront. . . . Clearly, the key requirement for successful beach house ownership is a (possibly illegal) sense of humor. Bring it on!\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"When her marriage goes bust, Kathleen heads for Long Island, where the challenges of owning a beach house--okay, a converted oyster shack--fuel a series of unfortunate, yet absolutely hilarious, events.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With its wisecracking protagonist--Kathleen Deane, still reeling from her husband Tom's declaration that he was unhappy with their Kansas life and marriage--\u003cem\u003eSave What's Left\u003c\/em\u003e brings a tongue-in-cheek tone to the beach read genre.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America \u003c\/i\u003eBook Club pick \u003ci\u003eSave What's Left\u003c\/i\u003e comes a witty and sharp-tongued novel about an actress whose manuscript is thirty-seven years overdue--and the life moments that led to its delay.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaria Astorini, once popular character actress and late-night talk show darling, is having a moment. The B-list actress has survived deaths, divorces, a famous mother, a Hollywood blacklist, a string of public embarrassments, an aging face, financial ruin, an empty nest, a difficult best friend, and a worldwide pandemic. Now, she's back and bigger than ever. A small, unexpected role has heightened her celebrity status and propelled her, at age sixty-five, into the limelight. And then, along comes the call Maria has spent decades avoiding. It's her publisher asking, \"Where is that book?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaria knows the world doesn't need another celebrity memoir. To finally fulfill her contract, Maria writes, or attempts to write, or, at the very least, sends a pile of pages meant to vaguely resemble the book she promised to deliver nearly four decades earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a series of bite-sized anecdotes, she candidly recalls her past, chronicling the significant, and insignificant moments of her full, funny, and extraordinarily unpredictable life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaria hasn't been able to write a book about her life--she's been too busy living it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eCastellano, Elizabeth\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Castellano\u003c\/b\u003e lives in New York, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eSave What's Left\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Proof of Progress.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496184316182,"sku":"9780063490277","price":32.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780063490277.jpg?v=1783056954","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/proof-of-progress","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}