Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison was an audiobook I checked out only to save me from a long car ride. I was looking for something funny and searched under “humor” but there were only 17 books available. This book looked like the best option. I’m neither a shoe addict nor have much sympathy for people who get themselves into debt, which is what the opening characters did. So it took me a while to warm up to the story. The other characters included a senator’s wife who gets caught shoplifting shoes, an agoraphobic phone-sex operator who thinks of the minutes she’s on the phone with how much of a pair of shoes it will buy her, and a nanny who is trying to figure out the adult rules of business.
Each woman has her own twisted relationship with shoes, with men, and with themselves. They come together to swap shoes since they are having financial issues preventing them from buying the designer shoes they want. They end up finding true friendship, new relationships, and forge a new shoe business together. It was all tied up in a pretty Prada bow of a happy ending.
Short book, perfect for a long car ride. Forgettable.
