It’s his job to make people fall in love with him. If You What You Really Want is a Book Like People We Meet on Vacation. Not the way I liked him back then-that starry-eyed girl who had fallen head-and heart-first into what turned out to be the generic trap of celebrity. Chani is hesitant to accept the interview, partially because she’s sick of people bringing up that weekend with Gabe, and partially because she knows there might still be feelings. Gabe is also divorced, newly sober and fresh off the heels of an almost career-ending scandal. After a divorce and lots of therapy, she’s a hugely in-demand writer. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing high-profile book deals, all she does is churn out puff pieces. Funny You Should Ask Elissa Sussman, Click to preview Delightful banter, hot romance and a love story thats worthy of the big screen Kate Spencer, author of In a New York Minute Ten years later and she still has butterflies. Soon after, when Gabe marries his model co-star, Chani feels foolish for thinking anything would ever come of their time together.Ĭut to ten years later, when Chani gets the opportunity to interview Gabe again. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. “Did they sleep together?” tabloids wonder. Elissa Sussman is the author of the novel, FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK, as well as the young adult novels, DRAWN THAT WAY, STRAY, and BURN. : NEW-Funny You Should Ask: A Novel (9780349435237) by Sussman And Elissa and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The two spend a weekend together for the profile, and the rumor mill gets spinning. Then she gets the opportunity to profile Gabe Parker, a Hollywood heartthrob who, in addition to being cast as the next James Bond, is Chani’s ultimate celeb crush. That’s precisely what happens to Chani Horowitz in Funny You Should Ask, a new novel by Elissa Sussman ( Drawn That Way).Ī 20-something journalist, Chani is frustrated that her former classmates are writing hard-hitting pieces and signing book deals while she’s stuck with celebrity puff pieces.

Imagine you get the chance to interview your celebrity crush and it ends up changing the course of your life.

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