Amy Lincoln has trust issues. Her mother abandoned her after her father was first sent to prison. She was brought up in the projects by her Grandma Lil, a leg waxer and devoted Falcon Crest viewer; her amiable father, Chicky, spent most of Amy's childhood in prison on a series of minor theft raps. A boarding school scholarship rescues Amy from lower-class oblivion; she goes on to Harvard and Columbia, then lands a job at "In Depth", a highbrow weekly magazine. Upbeat and self-deprecating, Amy spends little time bemoaning her past, but an encounter with college student Freddy Carrasco, who claims he's the illegitimate son of a Democratic presidential candidate, gets Amy wondering where her own mother might be. While advising Freddy how to approach his father, she uses her reporting skills to track down her elusive mother.
She eventually discovers her maternal grandmother living in Florida. Thankfully Amy's job takes her to Florida to cover a democratic rally. She instantly connects with her new found grandmother and wonders about her mother. Most the rest of the book is Amy trying to get up the nerve to actually find her mother as well as try to get over her recently ended 2 year relationship with John.
This was my first book by Isaacs and while there were elements I enjoyed I just kept wondering why I was reading it. I guess to see if Amy ever met her mother. It ended with a surprisingly happy ending but it felt unsatisfactory. I know Isaacs has been writting for a long time but it doesn't make me want to read more of her work.