by means of Karen V.

by means of Karen V. Siplin The exempt Press, June 2002 $23.00, ISBN 0-743-22278-4

With temperatures soaring to 100 classs a day at the beach is in order. All that's left to decide is what to bring to read. His Insignificant Other may be just what you're looking for. It's a missile of Bridget Jones's Diary mixed with a twist of The Best Man.

Casey Beck is the same year shy of turning 30 and suffering from an protracted quarter-life crisis. An uninspired adjunct professor at a second-rate university in strange York, she is as insecure as Bridget Jone and as inept as TV's Ally McBeal. Her closest friends are a quartet of shadowy never-quite-filled-out characters made up of a sexy dreadlocked waiter, a therapy-dependent professor and a white man and wife Barely older than her pupils Casey is mildly jealous of them and their youthful freedom, at the same time frustratingly unsure of her allow next step.

To top it all along Casey's involvement with John Paul, her first real boyfriend, is threatened when his beautiful ex-girlfriend, Mali, unexpectedly reappears onward the scene. Determined to hold fast her man, Casey makes undivided particularly poor decision that triggers a string of misfortunes that force her to consider on what account her relationship endures more from fear of being single than anything else

easy in mind to behave as though life is undivided multicultural episode of Melrose Place, none of Siplin's characters are as full-bodied as the alcohol they destroy They are, for the chiefly part, catty, self-absorbed, financially menstrum and attractive. Random characters conveniently pendant in to offer advice and just as conveniently exit, stage left after inspiring a certain life-altering change.

While it does little to distinguish itself from other single-sister-drama novels, His Insignificant Other contains all the right ingredients to distract you from your be in possession of daily goings-on. And sometimes, that's exactly what the doctor ordered.

--Zakia Carter is a writer and the sink of coloredgirls.com.

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