Rosina Lippi Tied to the Tracks

Tied to the Tracks, Rosina Lippi, Putnam, Jun 2006, $23.95, ISBN: 0399153497

At Ogilvie College, Georgia award winning author Miss Zula Bragg agrees to cooperate with a documentary about her life with the stipulation being that only financially troubled New Jersey based firm Tied to the Tracks make the film. Miss Zula explains that this small firm has the hunger to do it right not just sensationalize it.

Owner, writer and producer Angie Mangiamele has mixed feelings about the project that would provide a boost for her fledgling company as she knows that her former lover John Grant chairs the Ogilvie English Department. Still accompanied by her team, Rivera Rosenblum and Tony Russo who provide technical photography, editing and sound, Angie heads south. Affluent and belonging to the upper crust John is engaged to marry Caroline Rose, his social equal as the daughter of a prominent local family. However, upon seeing each other for the first time since their flame allegedly burned out, Angie and John deny the attraction that everyone at Ogilvie including her partners, his fianc , and Miss Zula feel is hotter than a peppercorn.

This chick lit romance is enhanced by New Jersey zanies who stick out in rural Georgia amidst local eccentrics as each group adds plenty of humor while observing the not in love goings-on between the filmmaker and the professor. The townsfolk take sides as the matchmakers vs. the anti-matchmakers augment a lighthearted at times satirical romp. Sub-genre fans will appreciate Rosina Lippi's war of northern aggression.

Harriet Klausner