Self Storage by Gayle Brandeis

Self Storage is post-chick lit trying to be just smart enough to garner an audience beyond those who read little more than the Shopaholic series. But invoking Walt Whitman in a chick lit novel might be even more dangerous than invoking Charlotte Bronte (e.g. The Bronte Project), who after all is one of the grandmothers of the genre. The author of Self Storage invokes Walt Whitman and Jean Baudrillard. But I have to give Gayle Brandeis credit for penning this tale of a self-storage auction obsessed twenty-seven-year-old mother of two who likes reading Whitman and is married to a lazy postmodern academic. This is not your ordinary chick lit.