Let's Not Do That Again by Grant Ginder

 

Nancy Harrison is running for the Senate from New York and this race is close.  She has two grown children.  Her son Nick was her assistant but now is teaching at Columbia.  Her daughter, Greta, seems to be at loose ends.  About a year ago, she suddenly distanced herself from her family, broke up with her fiance and moved out of a great apartment.  Now she is living in a room with strange roommates and working at an Apple store.

Then Greta falls in love with a man she meets online.  Unfortunately, he is a French right wing radical who is filled with prejudice and looking to become famous by spouting horrendous diatribes on YouTube.  Greta heads to Paris and the next the family sees of her, she is throwing a champagne bottle through a glass window of one of the finest restaurants in Paris.  The video goes viral and Nancy's prospects of winning are looking slimmer.  She sends Nick to Paris to bring Greta home.  Will he succeed?

Grant Ginder is an American novelist whose life is very similar to Nick's.  He has woven a tale of family relationships and secrets that will have the reader enthralled.  Although Greta seems to have gone off the tracks, the reader will discover what made her change so dramatically and what happens to her as the book progresses.  Nick starts a relationship with an FBI agent and thinks about moving away to get some distance from his family and their constant crises.   The tone of the book is actually light and the reader will find it easy to read.  This book is recommended for readers interested in family relationships.