Mr. & Mrs. American Pie [Paperback]

Named a 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist

A gorgeously messy and misguided heroine. I love this story. Laura Dern

The perfect blend of salty and sweet. Booklist(starred review)

Hilarious. Refinery29

The year is 1969. Dick Nixon was just sworn in as the thirty-seventh President of the United States. Neil Armstrong just took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind. And notable Palm Springs socialite Maxine Simmons just found out that her husband is leaving her for his twenty-two-year-old secretary.

After a public meltdown at Thanksgiving, Maxine finds herself not only divorced but exiled to Scottsdale, Arizona. However, these desert boondocks will not be her endonly her Elba. The former beauty queen sets her eyes on a new crown: that of the Mrs. American Pie pageant, awarded to the nations best wife and mother.

Maxine only has one problem: to win the crown shell need to findor builda family of her own. McDaniel's debut is the perfect blend of salty and sweet, combining 1970s culinary horrors like ham and bananas hollandaise with a motley crew of fakers learning what family really means. Booklist(starred review)

A gorgeously messy and misguided heroine. I love this story. Laura Dern

Mr. & Mrs. American Pieis nonstop fun from start to finish. HelloGiggles

Juliet McDaniel's debut novel is hilarious. Refinery29

A laugh-out-loud story starring a offbeat heroine you won't soon forget,Mr. & Mrs. American Pieis the comic relief you've been waiting for. Bustle

Juicy and kookyI loved it. Cat Marnell, author ofHow to Murder Your Life

McDaniel has a winner with her wittily titled debut.Mr. & Mrs. American Piemixes a riotous 1969 California with a story that speaks to today's Time's Up movement. Andy Lewis,The Hollywood Repolă°