Daytime Drama is Sarahlyn Bruck’s second novel. In it, Callipe Hart, who’s been an actress since her teens, sees her world crumble when the network cancels her long-running daytime soap opera. She wonders if she’s too old to continue in television, but—with no other skills—what else can she do? Though I have never been a soap opera buff, Bruck successfully transported me to the world of daytime television and deftly handles the five points of view that tell this story. Her tightly-knit family (Hart, her twelve-year old son, and her mother) are suddenly at significant financial risk. Worse yet, her mother is ferrying Hart’s son to auditions—and her daughter’s wishes.
Hart must make a number of hard choices: 1) whether to allow her son to continue the auditions he’s been secretly doing for television spots, 2) whether to allow her ex- to see the son he’s ignored for years, 3) whether to introduce her long-term beau to her family at last, 4) whether to leave her network politely, or 5) whether to embrace similar roles for an aging starlet or break out into new roles and media.
This is a perfect beach read with a compelling women’s fiction story laden with heartfelt moments between mother and son, child and parent.
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