Since Elle doesn’t know that Irene dumped her dad’s ashes onto the keyboard, she’s shocked when Irene says no, and eventually performs a switch-a-roo. When her computer breaks, Elle asks her mother Irene for her father’s Mac, which Irene has kept as a kind of shrine. Elle’s father died a year ago, and since then Elle’s been holding on to guilt that she wasn’t there. What All My Restless Life to Live does provide is a mostly amusing query on what happens after death. For most readers, these details won’t matter, but for those looking for an accurate behind-the-scenes look at the making of a soap opera, that’s not what this book provides. Elle’s title is producer, but she spends most of her time writing, and is even cajoled into acting at one point. However, this book is not a novel version of the movies Tootsie, Soap Dish or Nurse Betty – it does not provide a realistic (albeit funny) look behind the scenes at the making of a daytime soap opera. Protagonist Elle Miller is a producer for cable soap I’d Rather Be Loved (IRBL), based in San Diego rather than Los Angeles. So I was very excited to read Dee DeTarsio’s novel, All My Restless Life to Live. And although I recently quit watching General Hospital for the fourth time in my life, I still hold the daytime drama genre very close to my heart.
When I was in high school in the 1980s, there were 12 soaps on the air and somehow I managed to follow the stories and characters in each one. Everyone who knows me – and even some people who don’t – know that I am a huge soap opera fan.
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