Emma's Table: A Novel

EMMA'S TABLE opens with Emma Sutton arriving at the esteemed FitzCoopers auction house. As always' Emma knows exactly what she wants-a beautiful Japanese table-but she doesn't necessarily know what she's getting: the opportunity to set things right. Fresh from a year-long stretch in prison and the media-blood-letting that accompanied her fall' Emma plunges back into her former life-the TV cameras and chauffeured cars' her glittering business success and her fractured family' the awkward Sunday dinners at home. And this time around it doesn't feel quite right.

Enter Benjamin' Emma's assistant-a terminally charming young social worker-and one of Benjamin's most heart-breaking wards' an obese little girl from Queens named Gracie. Along with a handful of eclectic supporting characters' Emma' Benjamin' and Gracie are whisked into a fleet-footed story of unforeseen circumstance and delicious opportunity' as their individual searches for their better paths bring them all' however improbably' together.