from humor writer jane lotter comes this laughoutloud first novel the bette davis club is the hilarious chronicle of fiftysomething margo just her dysfunctional hollywoodfilmindustry family and margos battle to deal with both her drinking and an unsuccessful love affair theres also a runaway bride a missingbut very valuablescreenplay and a crosscountry chase in a gorgeous 1955 red mg along the way margo begins to find that what shes really chasing is her hearts own truth and none of what she discovers will be quite what she expected frances a chineseamerican student at an academically competitive school in san francisco has always had it drilled into her to be obedient to her mother and to be a straighta student so that she can go to med school but is being a doctor what she wants it has never even occurred to frances to question her own feelings and desires until she accidentally winds up in speech class and finds herself with a hidden talent does she dare to challenge the mother who has sacrificed everything for her set in the 1980s