Swimming Upstream, Slowly
Author: Melissa Clark
After too many vodka tonics at her best friend’s baby shower, twenty-seven-year-old Sasha finds herself having a ladies’ room epiphany. How quickly life can change, she thinks to herself: one minute she’s writing a master’s thesis about a TV comedy show for kids–and the next, the program actually gets optioned with her as the star. But Sasha’s awe at the twists of fate pro….Read More
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