Susan Kaplan Carl­ton cur­rent­ly teach­es writ­ing at Boston Uni­ver­si­ty. The author of Love & Haight and Lob­ster­land, her writ­ing has also appeared in Self, Elle, Made­moi­selle, and Sev­en­teen. She lived for a time with her fam­i­ly in Atlanta where her daugh­ters learned the fin­er points of eti­quette from a lit­tle pink book and the pow­er of social jus­tice from their synagogue.