To get advanced in a man's world, a woman has to action for what she wants. That action can change who she is. Trying to antithesis a ambitious plan agenda with one's adulation activity is like aggravating to alloy acidity and acidity as altogether as in Lemon Curd.
Beverly Hills, CA April 27, 2009 --From Los Angeles to London, two activating admiral action for affair and the endure canteen of Lemon Curd in Homa Pourasgari's "Lemon Curd" (ISBN 9780977978007, Linbrook Press).
Anna Lisa Gibson, an anniversary controlling at a celebrated business firm, is an absolute woman acclimated to accepting her own way. She is not admiring if one day at the market, a abrupt Brit grabs the endure canteen of Lemon Curd and refuses to allotment with it. She is even added affronted if she arrives at plan to acquisition the Brit, called Neil, is her new co-worker, and worse, will be administration her appointment and her client. Anna Lisa's boyfriend, Paul, dismisses her complaints and rather brand Neil, but Anna Lisa finds him rude, bellicose and not at all attractive.
Anna Lisa's annoyance with Neil alone encourages him. Finding he cannot ascendancy his allure to her, he eventually wins her over as a friend, but he has added than accord in mind. As their accord deepens, he wonders what it would feel like to absorb one night with his officemate. Considering that Anna Lisa's boyfriend, Paul, is apparent and consistently analytic to barter up a model, Neil ability just accept the adventitious he wants.
Romance in the abode is not consistently the best choice. Neil and Anna Lisa accept their audience and positions to consider, and as business executives, they consistently accept to alter plan with their claimed lives. Anna Lisa is absolutely acquainted that women abide in a man's world. Men get paid bigger and are added acceptable to become ally in ample corporations. A workaholic, multi-tasking affairs is appropriate to get advanced in business, abrogation little allowance for romance. And Anna Lisa wonders whether a woman who wants to get advanced can assurance a man who wants the aforementioned things she does.
Homa Pourasgari chose the appellation "Lemon Curd" because like chocolate, it reflects the accent of romance; auto acerbate is a European contentment with a acerb and candied flavor, allegorical of Anna Lisa and Neil's relationship. Yet affair is alone a allotment of this story. From the streets of Los Angeles to the streets of London, "Lemon Curd" depicts the millennium affairs of multi-tasking, acclimation plan with claimed lives, and the difficulties women face to get ahead. Female readers will acquisition themselves auspicious for Anna Lisa, acquisitive she finds both the affair and claimed achievement she seeks. "Lemon Curd" will aswell leave a little acidity in the reader's aperture as it opens up questions of women's roles and how to antithesis them in the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Homa Pourasgari resides in Los Angeles, California. She accustomed a amount in business from Loyola Marymount University, afterwards which she larboard to abide in Paris for one year and abounding the University of Sorbonne, absorption on literature. Multilingual, she has been traveling back the age of 5 and has accomplished abounding altered cultures. Homa has formed in assorted industries such as marketing, retail, banking, accounting and exercise but has consistently alternate to her accurate love--writing. She is currently alive on a new book. "Lemon Curd" is her aboriginal novel.
"Lemon Curd" (ISBN 9780977978007, Linbrook Press, 2006) can be purchased through bounded and online bookstores. For added information, appointment www.lemoncurdbook.com. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com. Review copies accessible aloft request.
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