Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

In the hysterically funny novel "Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman," Ellen is a single, neurotic psychotherapist who's trying survive in New York City - an urban jungle filled with dysfunctional people. Navigating through the daily trials and tribulations of this jungle, she uses her "Mental Notes," which are Ellen's humorous reflections that are applicable to the lives of the modern, everyday woman. Ellen's Mental Notes, one-hundred altogether, begin on the first page with "Mental Note #1: If it wasn't for the hopeful probability of sex, men and women would have nothing to do with one another. (Okay, so this may be truer for men.)" ... Truly believing in the theory of hopeful probability - that anything is possible if you just keep on trying - Ellen prepares to win the heart of her adolescent crush, who she'll be seeing at a wedding in two-months after not seeing him for seventeen years. But can she really concentrate on the wedding when her father decides to join a monastery in the Poconos, a full-time podiatrist turns into her part-time stalker, floating clergy begin to hover over her bed, and a best friend becomes infatuated with "Oliver," the personification of the female orgasm? With all this insanity in her life, will Ellen and her psyche make it to the wedding in one piece? Truly original, best selling author Alisa Steinberg takes fiction to all new heights in this much-anticipated novel.