Ruth Sanders is a writer on a television series. She's also writing a script that she is hoping to pitch as a series to network executives. The name of the series is The Next Best Thing and is loosely based on her life with her grandmother. She imagines it as an homage to The Golden Girls which she watched over and over again while she recovered from her many surgeries in the hospital. Seriously injured in a car accident that killed both of her parents, Ruth is cared for and raised by her grandmother from the age of 3 on. Now in her late twenties, the two of them have moved to Los Angeles so that Ruth can pursue her dream of being a writer. Nana jumps right into the industry making a living as an extra. Ruth spends six long years before she realizes her dream of getting a show "picked up." She thinks the hard part is behind her, but dealing with the network, the studio, the stars (the actors she didn't want) and the rewrites makes her realize that the show she wanted to do bears little resemblance to the show she ends up making.
This was my first Jennifer Weiner book, and I enjoyed it very much. It was fun trying to decide which star she was describing even though "the names have been changed to protect the innocent." She does a fair amount of name dropping as well.
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