Deborah Michel, a former magazine editor and freelance writer, has worked on a long list of publications that includes House Beautiful, Premiere, Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She worked as an editor and nightlife columnist for Avenue Magazine, was the west coast correspondent for Spy, and served as a contributing editor at Buzz.
A charming novel! Michel writes with intelligence, humor, and grace about the tricky terrain of marriage. The novel is both insightful and very entertaining. -- Ellen Sussman, author of French Lessons A richly detailed comedy of modern manners and the ways in which we complicate or own lives. -- Claire Cook, author of Must Love Dogs and Wallflower in Bloom Bad behavior, in the hands of a clever novelist, is one of the great pleasures of fiction, and Deborah Michel's modern day Angelenos are the most satisfying of rakes, snobs and odious in-laws...a social observer of Trollopian gifts. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz, author of Admission