Etiquette for the End of the World (2012)Jeanne Martinet
Grade: A
Genre: funny / contemporary / chick lit
Sex scenes: mild
Source: NetGalley
Tess Eliot is 39-years old and has just lost her column in a respected newspaper. Apparently, her recent Tess Knows Best article, with the line “The best way to a man’s heart is through his rib cage, preferably with a hack saw” went too far. Unemployed, with her agent no longer sending out her book proposal for Tess Eliot’s Quick Fixes for Life, Love, and Your Mother-in-Law, Tess is desperate for work.
She stumbles across the World Organisation for Omniscient
Solstice Harbingers who are offering an inordinate sum for someone to write an
etiquette guide in preparation for the end of the world. A visit to the offices
of WOOSH reveals that they really do believe that the world will end on
December 21 2012, as the Ancient Mayans had predicted, and they really are
serious about paying Tess that much money for effectively a how-to guide. She
may think they all need their heads checked out, but these are dire
circumstances.
