Maggie Darling: A modern romance - James Howard Kunstler

Maggie Darling is very funny and satirical in a low-key sort of way. Maggie is a Martha Stewart-type goddess of hearth and home where everything is perfect except her picture-perfect life suddenly goes awry. She is suddenly embroiled in a life of ex-husbands, thieving best friends, flings with younger men, and a son who is haning out with a gansta rap crew - among other such unrefined quandries. It is delightful the tale of how she has it all, loses it all, and learns how to carry on brilliantly in her strange new situations.