Beautiful Losers

With integrity and heartbreaking honesty, Wersba relates the third and most joyous of the Rita Formica trilogy. Rita and Arnold are not only reunited, but living together. Arnold, poetic and pure as ever (and maddening in his unflappability), finds beauty in a leaky faucet. But Rita sees nothing lovely about riding through snow on a bike to her jobs just to make ends meet. Will Rita learn to view the world as her parents do and leave her man behind? The ending is very happy and very real-life is not perfect but Rita and Arnold together can meet, head-on, all imperfections in their primrose path. Readers will put this one down with a deeply satisfied sigh; Wersba has humorously melded realism with the romantic.Wersba, Barbara is the author of 'Beautiful Losers', published 1990 under ISBN 9780440205807 and ISBN 0440205808.