Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

But in a turn of perplexing events, Celine becomes entranced by Alice’s performance and realizes that her daughter’s once lanky, slightly annoying best friend is now an irresistible young woman. So, when Sadie begs her to attend Alice’s play, she relents, if only to escape writer’s block. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother, Celine.Ī professor of women’s and gender studies at UC Berkeley, Celine’s landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but she’s struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminist world.

Pragmatic, serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school-really one another’s only friends-but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friend’s support. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming. She doesn’t have dreams of stardom, but the basement theater in a wildfire-choked town isn’t exactly what she envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale is far from glamorous. “I am literally obsessed.” -Busy PhilippsĪ hypnotic, sexy, and incisive debut adult novel following one woman’s affair with her daughter’s best friend that tests the limits of love and ambition from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Riding Hood.

Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright