Toni works in airport transportation, shuttling people to their gates. She has always had a fascination for science and entrepreneurship, and with Puerto Rican heritage, she is trying to formulate a body lotion for women with different skin colours. And Toni, whose husband Simon upped and left her and their twin daughters to go find himself, is used to hustling.
One of her favourite airport clients, the elderly Mrs Eisenberg, has a grandson, Ash, who is a venture capitalist. Toni may have once had a crush on him at college – and maybe still does.
This was an inspiring read about her pursuit to invent a successful product as Toni faces various challenges in her personal and entrepreneurial life. It centres around her business dreams, strong friendships with work colleagues, her burgeoning ties with the Eisenbergs, and the unwelcome return of her self-absorbed ex.
Josie is director of admissions at an elite San Francisco school, handling the kindergarten applicants. She owes a lot of her success to the wise guiding hand of her Aunt Viv, who took her in at the age of four. After quitting college to pursue a modelling career, Josie returned to Aunt Viv with her own four-year-old daughter, Etta. Etta is now set to apply to college but may not see eye to eye with her ambitious mother.
This is a great read about family, expectations and pushy parents, with a whip-smart heroine.
