None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive: A Novel

by Carolyn Prusa, Rebekkah Ross (Read by)

Overview

Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this smart and witty debut novel follows Ramona through the forty-eight hours after her life has been upended by the discovery of her husband’s affair and an approaching Category Four hurricane.

Ramona’s got a bratty boss, a toddler teetering through toilet training, a critical mom who doesn’t mind sharing, and oops—a cheating husband. That’s how a Category Four hurricane bearing down on her life in Savannah becomes just another item on her to-do list. In the next forty-eight hours she’ll add a neighborhood child and the class guinea pig named Clarence Thomas to her entourage as she struggles to evacuate town.

Ignoring the persistent glow of her minivan’s check engine light, Ramona navigates police check points, bathroom emergencies, demands from her boss, and torrential downpours while fielding calls and apology texts from her cheating husband and longing for the days when her life was like a Prince song, full of sexy creativity and joy.

Thoroughly entertaining and completely relatable, None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive is the hilarious, heartwarming story of a woman up to her elbows in calamities and about to drive off the brink of the rest of her life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781797141640
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date:	11/22/2022
Sales rank:	1,106,274
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 5.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Carolyn Prusa has written for Savannah Magazine, The Charlotte Observer, and other publications. She lives in Savannah with her husband, two sons, and giant rescue dog, Dale, who looks like a Wookie and sings like an angel. Find out more on Twitter @CarolynPrusa.

Rebekkah Ross is an actor, singer, writer, producer, and Earphones Award–winning narrator. She is a founding partner and artistic director of SparkPlug Productions, a non-profit multimedia production company. She is also a company member of Food for Thought Productions and has starred as Vanessa Fitzgerald in Handsome Town, an internet sitcom.

Editorial Reviews

"Fans of Amy Poehler and Maria Semple, rejoice! Carolyn Prusa has written an absolute hit. Wry, charming, and all too real, this is a laugh-out-loud gem of a novel." —Beck Dorey-Stein, New York Times bestselling author of From the Corner of the Oval

“A keenly observant, fast-paced comedy that illustrates just how tough it can be – as Prince would say – 'to get through this thing called life.' Finding humor in heartbreak, Prusa presents a strong-willed heroine who copes with one indignity after another, from the acutely embarrassing to the brutally life-changing, all while dodging in and out of the path of an oncoming hurricane.” —Amy Poeppel, author of Musical Chairs

From the Publisher

"Fans of Amy Poehler and Maria Semple, rejoice! Carolyn Prusa has written an absolute hit. Wry, charming, and all too real, this is a laugh-out-loud gem of a novel."

Beck Dorey-Stein