{"product_id":"proof-of-progress-a-novel-isbn-9780063490277","title":"Proof of Progress: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America \u003c\/i\u003eBook Club pick \u003ci\u003eSave What’s Left\u003c\/i\u003e comes a witty and sharp-tongued novel about an actress whose manuscript is thirty-seven years overdue—and the life moments that led to its delay.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria Astorini, once popular character actress and late-night talk show darling, is having a moment. The B-list actress has survived deaths, divorces, a famous mother, a Hollywood blacklist, a string of public embarrassments, an aging face, financial ruin, an empty nest, a difficult best friend, and a worldwide pandemic. Now, she’s back and bigger than ever. A small, unexpected role has heightened her celebrity status and propelled her, at age sixty-five, into the limelight. And then, along comes the call Maria has spent decades avoiding. It’s her publisher asking, “Where is that book?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria knows the world doesn’t need another celebrity memoir. To finally fulfill her contract, Maria writes, or attempts to write, or, at the very least, sends a pile of pages meant to vaguely resemble the book she promised to deliver nearly four decades earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of bite-sized anecdotes, she candidly recalls her past, chronicling the significant, and insignificant moments of her full, funny, and extraordinarily unpredictable life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria hasn’t been able to write a book about her life—she’s been too busy living it.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eSave What's Left\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Irreverent and unexpectedly tender, this story takes neighborhood feuding to new heights and finds beauty and reinvention in unlikely places. A wickedly funny debut.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I loved every page of Save What’s Left—this voice, this eye, this story, its originality and wit, its offbeat social satire, its loopy cynicism, and a whole town’s good intentions gone awry. Fighting city hall has never been so delicious. Brava, Elizabeth Castellano. I can’t wait for your next book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElinor Lipman, author of Every Tom, Dick \u0026amp; Harry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSave What’s Left\u003c\/em\u003e is an absolute delight. It’s laugh out loud funny and full of heart. I loved it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Castellano’s wickedly funny debut unfurls in miserable yet gleeful detail the soul-sucking nightmare of owning a house on the Long Island oceanfront. . . . Clearly, the key requirement for successful beach house ownership is a (possibly illegal) sense of humor. Bring it on!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“When her marriage goes bust, Kathleen heads for Long Island, where the challenges of owning a beach house—okay, a converted oyster shack—fuel a series of unfortunate, yet absolutely hilarious, events.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With its wisecracking protagonist—Kathleen Deane, still reeling from her husband Tom’s declaration that he was unhappy with their Kansas life and marriage—\u003cem\u003eSave What’s Left\u003c\/em\u003e brings a tongue-in-cheek tone to the beach read genre.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588034834661,"sku":"NP9780063490277","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/proof-of-progress-a-novel-isbn-9780063490277","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}