Perfectly Impossible by Elizabeth Topp
My Rating: 4 Stars
This was a fun read. It was actually my first “walking around” book of the year– you know, the one you carry around with you because you don’t want to stop reading. Anna lives two lives — personal assistant to a wealthy and demanding woman and her family by day and artist by night.
She struggles to balance the two as well as her place in the household — somewhere between the homeowners and servants.
Her life is further complicated by her attempts to do something meaningful by rounding up support to prevent a public school for the gifted from closing and trying to maintain her floundering relationship with her boyfriend.
The author throws a lot of balls in the air and manages to juggle them effectively in this light and entertaining novel.
I received this Advanced Reader Copy of Perfectly Impossible from Little A and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Description
In this witty debut novel, Elizabeth Topp crafts a story that ventures behind the fanciful facade of Park Avenue and into the life of one lovable type A assistant.
Anna’s job is simple: prevent the unexpected from happening and do everything better than perfectly. An artist at heart, Anna works a day job as a private assistant for Bambi Von Bizmark, a megarich Upper East Side matriarch who’s about to be honored at the illustrious Opera Ball.
Caught between the staid world of great wealth and her unconventional life as an artist, Anna struggles with her true calling. If she’s supposed to be a painter, why is she so much more successful as a personal assistant? When her boyfriend lands a fancy new job, it throws their future as a couple into doubt and intensifies Anna’s identity crisis. All she has to do is ensure everything runs smoothly and hold herself together until the Opera Ball is over. How hard could that be?
Featuring a vibrant array of characters from the powerful to the proletarian, Perfectly Impossible offers a glimpse into a world you’ll never want to leave.
