Clari Drake is a former hotshot TV news reporter whose brash tenacity, not to mention physical proportions, shot her star across the cutthroat, competitive San Francisco news market for decades. That is until the ignominious end of her career was captured on videotape and circulated to a national audience who laughed her into oblivion.
Now Clari Drake is feisty, frumpy and forty-something and has just entered the world’s second meanest business: being a mom at a posh private school in the People’s Republic of Berkeley.
Clari lives with her two boys, Zachand Zeppo, a loving husband, a farting dog, cranky cat, and a filthy hamster in the city’s less than glamorous flatlands on the wrong side of the university’s tracks.
Her troubles begin after she enrolls Zach in the Bidwell-Coggin School in the Berkeley hills, home to the wealthy, white elite that, in theory anyway, isn’t supposed to exist in the fabled land of Birkenstocks and woolen socks.
Zach who is a little person or dwarf (anything but midget, please!) is the only odd-man-out on the Bidwell-Coggin campus aside from his anxious, overweight mother.
But Zach isn’t the problem, Clari is, especially when a letter arrives home on the first day of fifth grade offering a clumsy explanation for the sudden departure of the much loved Swiss headmaster. When a loser from Las Vegas takes his place, Clari’s once formidable reporting instincts rise again, driving her to save the school from self-destruction while preserving her place among the beautiful people she loves to hate.
Over the 9-month course of the school year, Clari unravels the best story of her career with a little help from quirky cast of characters worthy of an Indie Flick!: the original earth mother, an angry black woman, a gay history teacher, a Catholic priest, and an aging lap dancer from Las Vegas. And those are just the good guys!
Can Clari resurrect the glory days of her past without ruining her child’s future? What begins with an odd Freudian slip in a letter ends with the indomitable Clari Drake finally finding clarity in Berkeley. Find it on AMAZON
Now Clari Drake is feisty, frumpy and forty-something and has just entered the world’s second meanest business: being a mom at a posh private school in the People’s Republic of Berkeley.
Clari lives with her two boys, Zachand Zeppo, a loving husband, a farting dog, cranky cat, and a filthy hamster in the city’s less than glamorous flatlands on the wrong side of the university’s tracks.
Her troubles begin after she enrolls Zach in the Bidwell-Coggin School in the Berkeley hills, home to the wealthy, white elite that, in theory anyway, isn’t supposed to exist in the fabled land of Birkenstocks and woolen socks.
Zach who is a little person or dwarf (anything but midget, please!) is the only odd-man-out on the Bidwell-Coggin campus aside from his anxious, overweight mother.
But Zach isn’t the problem, Clari is, especially when a letter arrives home on the first day of fifth grade offering a clumsy explanation for the sudden departure of the much loved Swiss headmaster. When a loser from Las Vegas takes his place, Clari’s once formidable reporting instincts rise again, driving her to save the school from self-destruction while preserving her place among the beautiful people she loves to hate.
Over the 9-month course of the school year, Clari unravels the best story of her career with a little help from quirky cast of characters worthy of an Indie Flick!: the original earth mother, an angry black woman, a gay history teacher, a Catholic priest, and an aging lap dancer from Las Vegas. And those are just the good guys!
Can Clari resurrect the glory days of her past without ruining her child’s future? What begins with an odd Freudian slip in a letter ends with the indomitable Clari Drake finally finding clarity in Berkeley. Find it on AMAZON
