Big City Eyes

With her best-selling novels and blockbuster screenplays, Delia Ephron has a talent for capturing the aspirations and emotions of today's women. The warmth and sensitivity that made hits of Hanging Up and the movie You've Got Mail are found in abundance in Big City Eyes. Lily Davis is a successful freelance writer and single mother who loves her life in Manhattan. She knows her teenaged son, Sam, is sneaking out to clubs, but when she finds a knife in his room, she impulsively decides to move to rural Long Island. It is not the picturesque life she imagined. The locals are in a war over what to do about the deer population. Sam shaves his head and starts dating a girl who only speaks Klingon. Lily's job on the local paper draws her into a murder investigation and an affair. Through it all, she writes about the daily trials of small town life as seen through her "Big City Eyes." Narrator C.J. Critt's empathetic reading finds the perfect voice for Lily as she struggles to do what is best for her son and herself.