“Still, Lola had almost forgotten about her friend Oona’s baby shower. Good thing Annabel had called her with hungover regret. But ack, she still needed to buy a gift! So much for her plans to give her poor garden a little love. Doug was heading out to play Ultimate Frisbee. Lola threw on a sundress and kissed him good-bye. On her way into Manhattan, Lola stopped at the more up-and-came neighborhood nearby, which on a Saturday, with all the sport-utility strollers and darling hats and joyful mul...ti-culti families, was like the Act I finale of Heather Has Two Mommies: The Musical. Earlier, she had turned the poor bassets over to an exceedingly charming male cousin of Daphne’s—someone who, it had occurred to Lola, might be good for Annabel if by some cruel twist of fate she never saw the Leo light. Now leashless and Snugli-less, in this neighborhood, Lola felt both smugly unencumbered and slightly, sadly, expendable. At a store called gaga, or googoo, or something equally adorable and lowercase, Lola scored a hypoallergenic cotton elephant woven by the women of a village in Lesotho, spending an extra five dollars to have it gift wrapped in linen because the store didn’t “use paper.”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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