Keep Me Posted

Lisa Beazley draws a keen-eyed, entertaining portrait of sisterhood in the age of social media in her debut novel, Keep Me Posted. Cassie and Sid Sunday have always adored one another, but they've grown apart in recent years. Sid is living the glamorous expat life in Singapore, while Cassie struggles to find a moment of peace as a New York City-dwelling mom of twins. Over Christmas at their parents' house, they make a pact to reconnect by exchanging snail-mail letters for a year.

Narrated by Cassie, the book intersperses letters written by both sisters with scenes from Cassie's increasingly harried life in Manhattan. Thrilled by her sense of renewed closeness to Sid and pleased to have a project, Cassie scans the letters onto her computer to save them for posterity. But when a technical glitch causes the letters to end up on the Internet, the sisters' relationship, and other aspects of their lives, may be in serious jeopardy.

Beazley's breezy, welcoming writing style draws readers right in, and her evocation of the bond between Sid and Cassie--occasionally competitive, but never catty--rings true. As the fault lines in Sid's marriage begin to show, and Cassie admits her frustrations with the life she has fought so hard to build, the sisters must put aside their embarrassment at being publicly exposed and figure out how to help each other move forward.

Warmhearted, insightful and often funny, Keep Me Posted is a tribute to sisterhood, forgiveness and the power of a handwritten letter. --Katie Noah Gibson, blogger at Cakes, Tea and Dreams

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