Bad Advice
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780811836920
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; General; Fiction / General; Brothers and sisters; Family; Parent and adult child
First sentence: It was the end of September in Tucson, Arizona, and Judith Ealey was forcing herself and her disobedient, old dog outside for exercise in the amazing heat, still over a hundred degrees at well past six in the evening.
Description: "Judith Ealey and her older brother, David, went in different directions. The black sheep of the family, she fled West to escape the past. He, meanwhile, faithfully joined the family law firm. No matter what they tried, though, there was one thing they shared: the family heritage of philandering and bad choices.".

"But then one day, two chance encounters change everything. Jogging with her dog in the Arizona desert, Judith assaults a man she mistakenly thinks is a mugger, and then invites him to move in. Meanwhile, at a theater in Boston, David falls in instant love with a mysterious woman seated beside him and decides to abandon his girlfriend and job.".

"Propelled by these events, the four Ealeys - Judith, David, and their feuding father and grandfather - grapple with an assortment of difficult friends, reluctant lovers, private detectives, demanding pets, and, ultimately, each other."--BOOK JACKET.