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Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor
3.0
Impersonation is to ghostwriting and feminism what Black Buck is to sales and consumerism. Both of these books make you equally thrilled and angry. You will love and hate Allie and Lana the same way you loved and hated Darren and Rhett.
Allie is a freelance ghostwriter, she is stuck having to balance her own mediocre "must make ends meet" world with the worlds of her fabulous subjects. She's a woman who had her own dreams and is having to balance the reality of how life turned out. So as someone who is not a mother, a freelancer or someone who would particularly call myself feminist, I was reading this book as a window into those things. And of course for the humor. To be honest, I’m connecting slightly better with her monster of a client, Lana than I am Allie, the protagonist. But then again, I’m a career first professional woman and Allie is anything but.
The writing is sharp and I’m easily driven from page to page. There's lots of liberal messaging so be prepared for that, regardless of which side you are on, it is easy to find humor in the austerity of it.
Allie is a freelance ghostwriter, she is stuck having to balance her own mediocre "must make ends meet" world with the worlds of her fabulous subjects. She's a woman who had her own dreams and is having to balance the reality of how life turned out. So as someone who is not a mother, a freelancer or someone who would particularly call myself feminist, I was reading this book as a window into those things. And of course for the humor. To be honest, I’m connecting slightly better with her monster of a client, Lana than I am Allie, the protagonist. But then again, I’m a career first professional woman and Allie is anything but.
The writing is sharp and I’m easily driven from page to page. There's lots of liberal messaging so be prepared for that, regardless of which side you are on, it is easy to find humor in the austerity of it.