Jill A. Davis, New York Times Bestselling Author, Ask Again Later and Girls' Poker Night

A Novel by Jill A. Davis

Buy Girls' Poker Night on Amazon

Find this book at your closest independent online bookstore:

Only available in USA. Service provided by BookSense.com.

For fans of Elinor Lipman and Laura Zigman comes the hilarious and poignant tale of a cub reporter, her poker-playing sidekicks, and the devilish pas de deux of workplace romance.

Dissatisfied both with writing a "Single Girls on the Edge/Ledge/Verge" lifestyle column and with her boyfriend (who has a name for his car and compulsively collects plastic bread ties), Ruby Capote sends her best columns and a six-pack of beer to the editor of the New York News and lands herself a new job in a new city.

In New York, Ruby undertakes the venerable tradition of Poker Night, a way (as men have always known) to eat, drink, smoke, analyze, interrupt one another, share stories, and, most of all, raise the stakes. There's Skorka, model by profession, homewrecker by vocation; Jenn, willing to cross state lines for true love; Danielle, recently divorced, seducer of at least one father/son combo in her quest to make up for perceived "missed opportunities." When Ruby falls for her boss, Michael, all bets are off. He's a challenge. He's her editor. And he wants her to stop being quippy and clever and become the writer and the woman he knows she can be. But what happens when you realize Mr. Right has his own unresolved past? Where does that leave the future you've envisioned? As smart as it is laugh-out-loud funny, Girls' Poker Night is a twenty-first-century His Girl Friday and a refreshingly upbeat look at friendship, work, and love.

"Jill Davis' Girls' Poker Night is every man's worst nightmare —a candid look at how the other half thinks and feels. Ruby Capote is a smart, neurotic, maddening heroine against whom very few male poker players would stand a chance. I certainly hope this is fiction."

—Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and The Good Life