Proof of Progress, (Hardcover)

<p><b>From the author of the <i>Good Morning America </i>Book Club pick <i>Save What's Left</i> comes a witty and sharp-tongued novel about an actress whose manuscript is thirty-seven years overdue--and the life moments that led to its delay.</b></p><p>Maria Astorini, once popular character actress and late-night talk show darling, is having a moment. The B-list actress has survived deaths, divorces, a famous mother, a Hollywood blacklist, a string of public embarrassments, an aging face, financial ruin, an empty nest, a difficult best friend, and a worldwide pandemic. Now, she's back and bigger than ever. A small, unexpected role has heightened her celebrity status and propelled her, at age sixty-five, into the limelight. And then, along comes the call Maria has spent decades avoiding. It's her publisher asking, "Where is that book?"</p><p>Maria knows the world doesn't need another celebrity memoir. To finally fulfill her contract, Maria writes, or attempts to write, or, at the very least, sends a pile of pages meant to vaguely resemble the book she promised to deliver nearly four decades earlier.</p><p>In a series of bite-sized anecdotes, she candidly recalls her past, chronicling the significant, and insignificant moments of her full, funny, and extraordinarily unpredictable life.</p><p>Maria hasn't been able to write a book about her life--she's been too busy living it.</p>

• Proof of Progress, (Hardcover)
• Author: Elizabeth Castellano
• ISBN: 9780063490277
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-09-15
• Page Count: 240