Same As It Never Was

At twenty-one, Olivia Martin has mastered the art of cynicism. Maybe that's inevitable because of her dysfunc-tional family-a desperately needy, ex-model mother; a rich, ill-tempered father with an imperious new wife; and a spoiled half-sister. Olivia's modus operandi has been to ignore them all and just drift through life, tough and alone. Only that's not what fate has in store for her. When her father and his second wife are killed in a car crash, Olivia is named guardian of her little half-sister, Celia, just as Olivia has fallen in love for the first time. Suddenly saddled with a child and a huge home, Olivia discovers that she can't always run....and that maybe she doesn't always want to. Capturing the privileged world of the west side of Los Angeles, Same As It Never Was is touching, romantic, and hilarious.LaZebnik, Claire is the author of 'Same As It Never Was', published 2003 under ISBN 9780312312497 and ISBN 0312312490.