Heidi Pitlor

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“By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet spots: the propulsive page-turner for people with high literary standards.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers TOGETHER, THEY MAKE THE PERFECT FEMINIST MOTHER Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America’s cultural definition of motherhood have left her a lapsed idealist. Lana Breban is a high-profile lawyer, economist, and advocate for women’s rights with designs on elected office. She also has a son. Lana and her staff have decided she needs help softening her image in the eyes of the public and that a memoir about her life as a mother will help. Allie struggles to write Lana’s book as obstacles pile up: not enough childcare, looming deadlines, an unresponsive subject, an ill-defined romantic relationship on the verge of slipping away. Eventually, Lana comes to require far too much of Allie and even her son. Allie’s ability to stand up for herself and ask for all that she deserves will ultimately determine the power that she can wield over her own life. With the satirical eye of Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher and the incisiveness of Meg Wolitzer’s The Female Persuasion, acclaimed writer Heidi Pitlor tells a timely, bitingly funny, and insightful story of ambition, motherhood, and class.

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"By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet spots: the propulsive page-turner for people with high literary standards." --Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers



Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America''s cultural definitions of motherhood have left her a lapsed idealist. Lana Breban is a powerhouse lawyer, economist, and advocate for women''s rights with designs on elected office. She also has a son. Lana and her staff have decided she needs help softening her public image and that a memoir about her life as a mother will help.



When Allie lands the job as Lana''s ghostwriter, it seems as if things will finally go Allie''s way. At last, she thinks, there will be enough money not just to pay her bills but to actually buy a house. After years of working as a ghostwriter for other celebrities, Allie believes she knows the drill: she has learned how to inhabit the lives of others and tell their stories better than they can.



But this time, everything becomes more complicated. Allie''s childcare arrangements unravel; she falls behind on her rent; her subject, Lana, is better at critiquing than actually providing material; and Allie''s boyfriend decides to go on a road trip toward self-discovery. But as a writer for hire, Allie has gotten too used to being accommodating. At what point will she speak up for all that she deserves?  



A satirical, incisive snapshot of how so many of us now live, Impersonationtells a timely, insightful, and bitingly funny story of ambition, motherhood, and class.

 
elieves she knows the drill: she has learned how to inhabit the lives of others and tell their stories better than they can.



But this time, everything becomes more complicated. Allie''s childcare arrangements unravel; she falls behind on her rent; her subject, Lana, is better at critiquing than actually providing material; and Allie''s boyfriend decides to go on a road trip toward self-discovery. But as a writer for hire, Allie has gotten too used to being accommodating. At what point will she speak up for all that she deserves?  



A satirical, incisive snapshot of how so many of us now live, Impersonationtells a timely, insightful, and bitingly funny story of ambition, motherhood, and class.

 elieves she knows the drill: she has learned how to inhabit the lives of others and tell their stories better than they can.



But this time, everything becomes more complicated. Allie''s childcare arrangements unravel; she falls behind on her rent; her subject, Lana, is better at critiquing than actually providing material; and Allie''s boyfriend decides to go on a road trip toward self-discovery. But as a writer for hire, Allie has gotten too used to being accommodating. At what point will she speak up for all that she deserves?  



A satirical, incisive snapshot of how so many of us now live, Impersonationtells a timely, insightful, and bitingly funny story of ambition, motherhood, and class.

 elieves she knows the drill: she has learned how to inhabit the lives of others and tell their stories better than they can.



But this time, everything becomes more complicated. Allie''s childcare arrangements unravel; she falls behind on her rent; her subject, Lana, is better at critiquing than actually providing material; and Allie''s boyfriend decides to go on a road trip toward self-discovery. But as a writer for hire, Allie has gotten too used to being accommodating. At what point will she speak up for all that she deserves?  



A satirical, incisive snapshot of how so many of us now live, Impersonationtells a timely, insightful, and bitingly funny story of ambition, motherhood, and class.

 l; she falls behind on her rent; her subject, Lana, is better at critiquing than actually providing material; and Allie''s boyfriend decides to go on a road trip toward self-discovery. But as a writer for hire, Allie has gotten too used to being accommodating. At what point will she speak up for all that she deserves?  



A satirical, incisive snapshot of how so many of us now live, Impersonationtells a timely, insightful, and bitingly funny story of ambition, motherhood, and class.

 

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