Ayelet Waldman

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is a novel by Ayelet Waldman and released in 2006.

How much would you sacrifice to save someone you love?When Olivia, wild-haired and headstrong, makes a terrible mistake, she must turn to the person least likely to help--her mother, Elaine. Motherhood was a role that Elaine never embraced and her best never amounted to much. But now Olivia faces prosecution for a …