No Filter

At fifty-eight, Vera Novak posts one honest photo. A million strangers see it. Her husband pretends not to.The morning after her son moves to New York, Vera tries on the blue polka-dot dress her mother sewed in 1991, the dress she wore the summer she met Mark. The zipper won't close. Her best friend Irene tells her to post it anyway. By the next morning it has 1.2 million views.A few weeks later, two hundred thousand women are waiting for her every evening. Her ad agency calls her into the windowless conference room everyone knows as Honesty. And a skincare brand wants Vera and Mark, married for more than thirty years, as the faces of a campaign called We Choose Each Other Every Day. Soon the two of them are laughing down from a billboard on Cicero Avenue.There's just one problem. Mark lost his job too. Every morning at seven twenty he puts on his sport coat, says "e;Well, off to work,"e; and drives to a parking garage on Cicero Avenue. Vera has her own version at the kitchen table. Neither of them knows about the other. Then an anonymous account called the_truth_about_vera starts posting.No Filter is a warm, funny novel about a long marriage, grown children who think they know better, a neighbor who notices everything, and the women in the comments who show up night after night. Told mostly by Vera, with chapters from Mark and their grown kids and with the comment threads running between chapters, it's for anyone who started over later than planned, and for anyone who ever said everything was fine when it wasn't.Perfect for book clubs. A reading group guide is included.