Vivian Rising by Daniella Brodsky, Simon & Schuster, $29.99
She has a dead end job, a dead boring boyfriend, and a deadbeat mother. Vivian Sklar’s one true joy is her feisty grandmother, who dies in her hospital bed, as poor Viv cowers in the loo.
Lost and bereft, she’s cared for, and constantly fed, by the warm-hearted senior citizens in her Brooklyn apartment building.
But missing her stern but sensible Grams, she looks for a new guide, and finds one in a very kooky character, wild-haired Kavia — the abrupt and abrasive astrologer. Viv hangs off her every word, blindly following the stars, until she’s forced by circumstance to take her life back into her own hands.
Daniella Brodsky has created a sassy but vulnerable character in Viv Sklar. By the end of Vivian Rising, you’ll be cheering her on as she loosens her tight grip on the past, and embraces a new life on her own two feet.
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