Definitely Better Now

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Definitely Better Now
by Ava Robinson

ISBN: 9780778310594
Hardcover, new

Brief Description:
A touching and deeply funny debut about starting over sober only to
discover life’s biggest messes are still waiting right where you left them.
The very last person anyone should worry about is Emma. Yes, hi, she’s an
alcoholic. But she’s officially been sober for one entire year. That’s
twelve months of better health. Fifty-two whole weeks of focusing on
nothing but her nine-to-five office job, group meetings, and avoiding the
kind of bad decisions that previously left her awash in shame and regret.
It’s also been 365 days of not dating. And with her new dating profile,
Emma, 26, of New York is ready to put herself back out there. Except–was
dating always this complicated? And did Emma’s mother really have to choose
now to move in with her new boyfriend? Being assigned to plan her office’s
holiday party feels like icing on the suddenly very overwhelming cake until
her estranged father reappears with devastating news. Icing, meet cherry on
top. But then there’s Ben, the charming IT guy who, despite Emma’s
awkwardness and shortcomings, seems to maybe actually get her? Sobriety is
turning out to be far from the flawless future Emma had once envisioned for
herself, but as she allows herself to open up to Ben and confront difficult
past relationships, she’s beginning to realize that taking things one day
at a time might just be the perfectly imperfect path she’s meant to be on.
Bittersweet and darkly hilarious, Ava Robinson’s debut novel about
navigating sobriety and complicated family dynamics is witty, heartbreaking
and profoundly relatable.