Photo credit: Julia Sprenger
Cherie Morris Sprenger and Penny Bell, under the pen names Crystal Walker and Phoebe Thompson, celebrated yet another book party in their honor for Desperate in DC, a tomb about two Washington, DC moms wrestling in very different ways with the issue of motherhood, money and marriage. This time the occasion took place at the home of Joan Shifrin and Michael Faber.
Isabel Linder and Julia Sprenger, daughters of the authors
“We like to think we came up with the title Desperate in DC before Desperate Housewives came out which shows you how long we’ve been discussing and writing. And yes, we came up with the title partly because we had a sense of desperation about our lives here.
Cherie Sprenger and Penny Bell
I think anyone who lives here, particularly if they have kids and they are a woman, knows that struggle where their falling down on all fronts,” opined Phoebe. “their home life, their work life, their marriage, their house – everything is on the point of chaos at any given moment on any given day and the days that things are going swimmingly are very few and far apart.” We suspect that is applicable to all moms everywhere, so happy Mother’s Day wherever you are!
Hollywood on the Potomac sat down with the authors earlier in the year:
