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Elinor Lipman reads from Rachel To The Rescue
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Rachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticising the president.
As she is escorted off the premises, she is hit by a speeding car – a car driven by a person the press will discreetly call ‘a personal friend of the President’.
Does that explain the flowers? The get-well wishes at a press briefing? The hush money offered by a lawyer at her hospital bedside?
Rachel’s recovery is soothed by comically doting parents, matchmaking room-mates and a new job as aide to a journalist whose books aim to defame the President. She also finds unexpected love at the local wine store.
Overcoming âTrump fatigueâ with a fictional take on the president
By Kate Tuttle Globe Correspondent,Updated December 28, 2020, 10:45 a.m.
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Novelist Elinor Lipman loves her characters, but she puts them through a lot. In her latest, âRachel to the Rescue,â a low-level government employee is hit by a car after being fired from her job taping together documents the president has ripped up. Once recovered from her injuries, Rachel goes to work for a would-be muckraker to ferret out the nefarious (and hilarious) connections between the president, the driver, and a constellation of other figures.
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