Alejandra Portillo (Women's Fiction)

Genre:Womens Fiction
Title:Peyton Amberg
Author:Tama Janowitz


This novel was about a women named Peyton Amberg who married very young to escape her unexciting life,but what she quickly realized was that marriage was not the answer.
She married a dentist named Barry who was anything but exciting ,he was hard working ,boring, and allergic to just about everything.

Peyton decided to become a travel agent so that so could travel and explore the world to find some excitement.Her fist trip was to Brazil where her wallet,passport,and palne ticket w2as stolen when she went to use the restroom. Luckily for her she met a man named Germano who helped her. He let her stay with him in his hotel room , brought her expensive clothes ,jewelry,and took her to dinner . The author never explain how she returned home without a passport. Throughout the novel Peyton has many lovers who seem unrealistic, and gets herself into situation that could only happen to character in a book or movie.

Towards the end of the novel she travels to Hong Kong with Xian Rong a thief , whom she met at the airport . Xian Rong becomes Peyton's lover right away and convinces her to join his crew of thieves. The way the robberies are describe in the novel seem amatauer and unprofessional for someone who dose this as a living.

This novel 's genre definitely has the have the word fiction attached to it , because of all the impossible situations describe by the author. Any women who has been married for years and feel that their lives are m0re routine then before they were married can relate to the novel's main character Peyton.