When Ada Howard receives the invitation to her 25 year
college reunion and finds out that her old boyfriend Matt Mason is on the
organizing committee, she decides that she is going to lose 100 pounds in the
year leading up the reunion. Each
chapter of the book illustrates one of “Ada’s Rules: Fifty-three Perfect Rules for an Imperfect
but Excellent Health and Beauty Revival”.
Along the way we learn about Ada’s overly full days as a preacher’s
wife, the director of day-care center, the caregiver to her elderly parents, and
the mother of two grown daughters. We
also learn about her dissatisfaction with the current state of her marriage,
the feeling that her husband might be cheating on her, and her own thoughts of
having an affair.
This book can function as a diet book for anyone looking for
inspiration to make some difficult changes in their life, such as Ada does and Alice
Randall did while writing this book. The
book can also be enjoyed as a look into the life and relationships of a modern, African-American Women living in the South.
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