"The thing about being an evangelical Christian and a Southerner living in New York City, raising her children in an apartment where one of them sleeps in a closet, is that there are a lot of people in your life to disappoint."

So says Elizabeth Passarella in her wry and witty debut, Good Apple. Among the people she has to disappoint are:

• her mother in Memphis, who still hopes her daughter will abandon her love of New York
• her mother's friends, horrified that a family of five lives in a two-bedroom apartment
• her father, bewildered by how his daughter went from working for Ralph Reed to voting for Hillary Clinton
• and, perhaps most of all, her colleagues and neighbors on Manhattan's Upper West Side, who can't believe it's possible Elizabeth is both a successful New York professional and an evangelical Christian

Whether describing the absurdities of dating in New York as a Christian, having a screaming fight with her (much loved) husband on a New York street corner, finding a rat trapped in her bedroom, or explaining how she is both a committed evangelical and a committed Democrat, Elizabeth's sharp, funny, and slyly profound memoir is like sitting across the table from the sardonic yet wise best friend you always wished you had.