Emmy-nominated comedy writer and vice-president’s daughter Kristin Gore makes her fiction debut with a sharply funny and poignant portrait of Capitol Hill seen through the eyes of an naive and highly unusual new recruit.
Smart, hardworking and idealistic, Samantha Joyce is making her mark in as a brilliant young health care analyst for an up-and-coming senator. But Sammy is also a wee bit eccentric. When she's not obsessing about being struck down by an obscure exotic disease, practising defence tactics to fend off marauding wild animals, getting dressed with only one arm so she’s prepared for any tragic loss of said limb, or rushing her pet Japanese fighting fish off for emergency resucitation, she’s encouraging her favourite telemarketers to call more often. When Sammy falls for devastatingly handsome and funny hotshot speech writer Aaron - think Sam Seaborn in West Wing - she manages to juggle high stakes lobbying amid a national political campaign with late night assignations like a pro, one-armed and otherwise, until she mistakenly broadcasts a BlackBerry message meant for Aaaron involving whipped cream and lingerie to 200 power players in Washington.
But this is romantic comedy with bite, offering an alternately hilarious and intriguing fly-on-the-wall view of the real West Wing, written by someone you know really does know what goes on behind the scenes.
