Becky Motew Coupon Girl

Coupon Girl by Becky Motew

Making It, May 2006, $12.95

ISBN: 0843956933

Thirty-six years old single Jeanie Callahan feels like she is in a rut having no date and selling coupons for a living. To find a life, she decides to audition for a role in the community production of The Sound of Music directed by Barton.

Jeanie feels good about landing a part in the chorus though she has doubts about going on stage. She and Barton sort of have a relationship, but where that is going Jeanie has no idea. Finally her boss expects her to increase her sales of coupons or else. She wonders if she should try to sell them at the community theater, which could push away Barton, but if she does not that can alienate her boss. Jeanie ponders the age old key question of the universe: food or love.

COUPON GIRL is an odd fascinating contemporary tale starring an interesting at times likable but at other times insipid heroine. Jeanie's insight into her "vocation" of selling coupons is intriguingly different. Becky Motew provides an interesting look at an everyday person trying to reinvent herself (perhaps a bit too long as coupons can only go so far) as she believes there is more to life than coupons (don't let her boss know that she has treacherous taboo thoughts).

Harriet Klausner