Review by Darcie Czajkowski
Have you ever
wished that you could be in two places at once? Of course you have. Who hasn’t?
In today’s fast-paced, social media-crazed society, sometimes we feel like we
can’t do it all, have it all, be it all to everyone in our lives. Wouldn’t it
be great if there were an app for that? A magical electronic tool that we could
simply download onto our smart phone that would enable us to be everywhere we
needed to be at once?
Say hello to
Wishful Thinking, an app that allows a person to time travel in order to be in
two (or more) places simultaneously. This is an app that divorced, working
mother of two, Jennifer Sharpe, needs. After losing her phone and having it
delivered to her doorstep with the app downloaded onto it, Jennifer is
intrigued. Okay, at first she’s skeptical, but with the pressures of her job
and the amount of attention that being the parent she wants to be demands of
her, she quickly changes her stance on the matter and decides to give the app a
try. What could it hurt?
Soon she is
superwoman in all aspects of her life: at work, at home, and she even makes
time for a personal life when she starts dating her son’s guitar teacher. But
she also constantly forgets things, even more than she did before, relying on
her phone to keep all aspects of her life in check. She’s exhausted from adding
more hours into each day and feels the urge to push herself to add on even more
obligations, reasoning that she can handle it all. More than anything, she never
feels truly in the moment.
Despite these
weighty downsides, Jennifer knows the app is essential to her survival. But
what will her family and friends say when her worlds overlap and they realize
that Jennifer’s been lying to everyone around her?
I adored
Kamy Wicoff’s Wishful Thinking. We’ve
all been in Jennifer’s shoes, trying to do it all. Life is busy and we all wish
we could cram more hours into the day. But this story reminds us that there are
only so many hours in a day for a reason. That everyone is just doing the best
they can. That we should rally around our friends and family when they need help
because one person can’t do it all. Kamy’s writing and story-telling are smooth
and sharp, witty and friendly. I highly recommend this winning debut.
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book at:
About the
Author:
Kamy
Wicoff is the bestselling author of the nonfiction book I Do but I
Don’t: Why the Way We Marry Matters. Wishful Thinking is
her debut novel.
She is the
cofounder of one of the world’s largest communities for women writers, www.shewrites.com. She is
also cofounder, with Brooke Warner, of She Writes Press. She
Writes and She Writes Press are part of the SparkPoint Studio family.
She lives with her
family in Brooklyn, New York.
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