All I Need to Get by

Crita has come a long way from her small-town Ohio roots. A successful tax accountant living in Manhattan, she finally has the independent life that she dreamed of as a girl. However, with one fateful phone call, Crita's life is turned upside down. Suddenly back home, living under her parent's roof, Crita must confront two powerful men from her childhood--Link, her destructive brother with whom she shares a dark secret, and Tree, her first love.

Facing memories that she would rather forget, Crita struggles to reconcile a tumultuous past with a calmer, quieter present. Needing help along the way, she may even learn to lean on Tree, the only man who could ever give her what she needs to get by. In this riveting debut novel, Sophfronia Scott speaks for anyone that knows just how hard it is to go back home again.

Author: Sophfronia Scott
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 03/10/2004
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.47w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780312318567

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2003 pg. 1420
Booklist 02/01/2004 pg. 951
Essence 04/01/2004 pg. 142
People Weekly 03/29/2004 pg. 54
Romantic Times 03/01/2004 pg. 42 - Excellent
Kliatt 05/01/2004 pg. 23

About the Author

Sophfronia Scott proudly hails from Toni Morrison's hometown of Lorain, Ohio. She is the third of seven children born to her steelworker father and stay-at-home mother. After graduating from Harvard in 1988, Sophfronia went to work for Time magazine where, in early 1990, she and a colleague conceived Time's Twentysomething cover story and became the magazine's youngest cover story writers. Sophfronia is the former StyleWatch editor at People magazine and the former Senior Entertainment editor at TeenPeople. Sophfronia resides with her husband in Manhattan. All I Need to Get By is her first novel.

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