![]() ![]() It’s chick lit combined with a tame version of Jessica Cutleresque antics. The book is hard to put down, as I found out when I awoke one morning at 4:30 yearning to finish the last hundred pages. Like the time he calls her into his office, only to shoo her out by asking, “You’re still here?” ![]() Thankfully, she seems to be onto to the game: “And the fact that he actually cared was the only thing that made putting up with his bulls- – – worthwhile,” she says early on.Įven so, like many aides on the real Capitol Hill, she seeks Gary’s attentions as a dog does his owner, lapping up scraps whenever she can get them, believing in her boss even on his worst days. Sammy is the idealistic staffer handling health issues for Robert Gary (referred to as RG), an Ohio senator who intermittently treats her as a daughter and as an aide he wishes would disappear on contact. The novel is a must-read for Capitol Hill staffers, as they will relate to every detail, every bar and all the inner workings of a Senate office that only insiders can know. ![]() This week she held signings in Arlington and Rockville. Gore, the daughter of former Vice President Al Gore, began her book tour last week in New York. She’s the 20-something, quirky, presumably blond staffer in Kristin Gore’s first novel, Sammy’s Hill. Samantha Joyce is a character that every woman on Capitol Hill is supposed to be able to relate to. ![]()
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