The other day, one of my dear friends (and long-suffering reader of my manuscripts) characterized An Unexpected Exile as "Chick Lit." I immediately felt insulted. After all, isn't "Chick Lit" nothing more than inane, fluffy entertainment for airhead women with little or no intelligence?

So I did a little more research on the genre, and it seems that "Chick Lit," as a sub-genre of women's fiction, can deal with some very serious subjects. The characteristic features of "Chick Lit" are (1) a hu...
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