Meet Mimi: Reclusive literary legend. Wrote Pulitzer- and National Book Award—winning novel at nineteen. Hasn’t been seen or heard from much since, though, ironically, she lives in a glass mansion in Bel Air. Lost all her money in a Ponzi scheme, needs to write another novel. So her publisher sends her . . . Alice Whitley: Editorial assistant. Twenty-five years old. Highly competent. Thinks she’s going to be typing up pages and delivering cups of coffee. Instead finds that her primary job is to be companion to . . . Frank: Mimi’s nine-year-old son. A boy with the intellect of Albert Einstein, the wardrobe of a 1930s movie star, and very little in common with his fellow fourth graders. About to give Alice the education of her life.
