{"product_id":"proof-of-progress","title":"Proof of Progress","description":"\u003ch4\u003eElizabeth Castellano | Paperback | September 2026\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-author-about\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"l-gutters\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"l-container\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA witty and sharp-tongued novel about a writer and actress who finally comes to write the manuscript that is thirty-seven years overdue – for fans of \u003ci\u003eWe All Want Impossible Things \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondent.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaria Astorini, once 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?’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Maria hasn’t been able to write a book about her life – she’s been too busy living it. To finally fulfil her contract, Maria writes, or attempts to write, a pile of pages meant to vaguely resemble the book she promised to deliver nearly four decades earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e---------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Info\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElizabeth Castellano lives in New York, and is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSave What’s Left\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e Proof of Progress.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"booxies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51340667814055,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0507\/1523\/0375\/files\/proofofprogres.jpg?v=1789435851","url":"https:\/\/booxies.com\/products\/proof-of-progress","provider":"booxies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}