- Amalie
- Price—overeducated,
- sharp-tongued,
- and
- slightly
- cross-eyed—has
- been
- coasting
- along
- in
- New
- York
- as
- a
- sheltered
- faculty
- wife
- who
- secretly
- freelances
- as
- a
- French
- porno
- translator,
- when
- she
- suddenly
- finds
- herself
- a
- widow
- at
- 40.
- Left
- with
- no
- financial
- resources
- by
- her
- activist—and
- possibly
- unfaithful—husband,
- she
- must
- contend
- with
- her
- newly
- alienated
- teenage
- son,
- the
- threat
- of
- eviction
- from
- her
- Upper
- West
- Side
- apartment,
- and
- the
- need
- to
- earn
- a
- living.
- Amalie
- transforms
- herself
- in
- record
- time
- as
- she
- takes
- on
- the
- New
- York
- City
- bureaucracy,
- leads
- a
- tenant
- protest,
- and
- becomes
- increasingly
- engaged
- in
- social
- issues,
- to
- her
- own
- surprise
- and
- the
- amazement
- of
- both
- her
- inscrutable
- son
- and
- wacky
- sociologist
- father.
- Along
- the
- way,
- Amalie
- manages
- a
- new
- job,
- attempts
- to
- make
- peace
- with
- her
- offspring,
- and
- fights
- off—or
- succumbs
- to—a
- colorful
- variety
- of
- men
- in
- hot
- pursuit:
- a
- composer
- who
- bases
- his
- music
- on
- cuts
- of
- meat,
- her
- messianic
- new
- boss,
- and
- a
- lawyer
- who
- relies
- on
- his
- dog
- for
- legal
- strategy.
- Set
- in
- the
- late
- 1980s,
- Amalie
- in
- Orbit
- is
- an
- insightful
- and
- hilarious
- tale
- of
- one
- woman's
- miraculous conversion.
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