As chick-lit jacket art exhausts all variations on high-heeled shoes and handbags, some publishers are embracing a new staple of the modern woman's wardrobe: the rain boot.
| Belong to Meby Marisa de los Santos (Morrow, Apr.) | My Best Friend's Girlby Dorothy Koomson (Bantam Discovery, Mar.) | Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girlby Susan McCorkindale (NAL Trade, Oct.) |
| Summary | ||
| A devoted city dweller heads for the Philadelphia suburbs and navigates the complex world of female friendships. | Estranged friends reunite—and then one asks the other to adopt her five-year-old daughter. | A suburban mom gives up her six-figure job and heads down South to a 500-acre beef farm. |
| Why boots? | ||
| Senior director of media relations Sharyn Rosenblum: “The boots represent a perfect family, although that isn't exactly how things unfold.” Morrow is raffling off a pair of classic Wellies to one lucky reader. | Editor Caitlin Alexander: “Rain boots... evoke one of the larger discussion-worthy themes of the novel: how we weather life's unpredictable showers, and the surprising ways in which we often emerge from them happier.” | Publisher Kara Welsh: “We wanted to do something fun that immediately illustrated the Carrie Bradshaw—meets—Green Acres theme of this book. The red high heels next to the boots gave it that quick hit.” |
