Slacks for Ella Funt

Bank is a writer who gets lumped in the chic lit genre, probably because her protagonists are single women. But I enjoyed both this book, and The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing, her previous book. Both books are of the novel in stories type, where a series of stories are all about the same character. This helps solve my primary problem with short stories—not long enough for me to remember them later.
The Wonder Spot starts in when Sophie drops out of bat mitzvah class as an adolescent, then follows her as she moves to the city and lives, in turn, with each of her brothers and her grandmother. She works as an editorial assistant, and I really liked the story about her job and the odd coworker who finds the great book in the slush pile. It’s just nice to read a book about a single woman who has a full life—a job and relationships with family and friends—and doesn’t seem to spend all her time looking for a boyfriend or being neglected/dumped/cheated on by one.