"Funny in a poignant kind of way"
Clarissa has lived with Kieran for eight years and thinks
he is about to propose. Her best friends Delilah and Kate
agree and even throw an engagement party, but Kier fails
to give her a ring. Instead he breaks up with her after
she quits her job to become a housewife to him. She
returns to her mom's place with her tail dragging. While Clarissa mopes, her friends try to cheer her up
without success. Her mom wanting her daughter back on her
feet and happy gives a brochure on Antarctica to Kate.
Before Clarissa knows what is happening she is on her way
to Antarctica for employment accompanied by her two
buddies. There the male to female ratio is 4:1 with most
of the men being single. Though the heroine is in her late twenties-early thirties
this is a coming of age chick lit tale. Readers will have
to adjust to decisions that flaky Clarissa makes but will
find the time worth doing. Antarctica serves as a
terrific backdrop even if plunging into the icy water
seems cold for even a polar bear. Chick lit fans will
appreciate this fine tale of a woman trying to find
herself in the frozen Antarctic tundra. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 18, 2004
She'd go to the ends of the earth to find love.
SummaryWhen life throws you a lemon, make frozen
lemonade
Clarissa Schneckberg wasn't ready to leave her Silicon
Valley job, get dumped by her longtime boyfriend, and move
back in with her parents. She's officially pathetic. And
her prospects are dim. At least that's how they look from
under the covers of her childhood bed...
But just when her life seems to be heading south,
Clarissa decides to head really south—to Antarctica, to be
exact. With her best friends, Delilah and Kate, she's
ready to make the trek and sign up for some equal-
opportunity jobs...even though none of them has yet to live
through a winter without fuzzy slippers and fake fur.
After all, the male-to-female ratio at the South Pole is
something like four-to-one. It's definitely time to shop
for some new underwear. Long underwear, that is.
It's an amorous adventure Clarissa would be sane to
pass up. But for this snow angel, sanity has outlived its
usefulness...
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