One of my favorite memories of my son’s teenage years is watching The Gilmore Girls together after school. Our love for Lorelai and Rory Gilmore was shared every day in reruns. Lauren Graham will forever be Lorelai Gilmore to me, even though I do enjoy her on Parenthood as well. Imagine my joy as I sat in the waiting room of the CCU in early May and read that Lauren Graham had released a novel. I immediately downloaded Someday, Someday, Maybe onto my Kindle and began reading. Graham writes about a young actress in New York during the 70’s. Of course, I imagined Graham herself as the main character in the novel. Graham seems to have captured the atmosphere of the city during this time. She expresses the struggles of following the passion for acting while maintaining a roof over her head. She details the pressure that her family exerts on her to come home and live a “normal” life as well as the pressure the industry puts upon a young actress to compromise for fame.

This was a perfect book after the more intense Sue Monk Kidd. It was thoroughly enjoyable to walk the streets of NYC with the main character and her colorful cast of cohorts. I was never fearful that she wouldn’t succeed and enjoyed the many missteps that she made. I later read that the storyline may be made into a television show starring the young actress that portrays Graham’s daughter in Parenthood.