by Susan Isaacs (Get the Book)As mortality grips Gloria Goldberg Garrison in its greedy little claws, the octogenarian self-made entrepreneur behind Glory Inc. must decide who among her grandchildren will inherit the reins of her multimillion-dollar beauty-makeover empire. Imperially summoning the three twentysomethings away from their rich lives and rewarding careers in Manhattan to her palatial home and corporate headquarters in Santa Fe, Gloria plans a grueling get-to-know-you weekend, at the end of which one candidate will emerge victorious. And although this may be the plot of every reality-TV show on the air, Gloria is the one who ends up being surprised: neither Matt, his sister, Daisy, nor their cousin Raquel has any interest in anything to do with the shrewish, selfish grandmother, who rejected them and their parents years earlier. Isaacs' whip-smart, shrewdly scathing, and spirited portrait of a malevolent matriarch worthy of the Brothers Grimm and her Disneyesque coterie of too-good-to-be-true grandchildren is both a saucy satire and a redemptive study of the indelible bonds of families. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: All the publicity machinery is in motion to support best-selling Isaacs' latest twist on family malfunction. --Booklist
