<B>This hilarious satire of genteel family life features the misadventures that ensue when a reality TV show comes to town looking for its next star.</B><P>Meet the Harcourts of Chevy Chase, Maryland. A respectable middle-class, middle-age, mixed-race couple, Harold and Forsythia have four eminently marriageable daughters—or so their mother believes. Forsythia named her girls after Windsor royals in the hopes that one day each would find her true prince. But princes are far from the mind of their second-born daughter, Bliss, who, in the aftermath of a messy divorce, has moved back home and thrown herself into earning her PhD. <P> <P>All that changes when a <I>Bachelorette</I>-style reality television show called <I>The Virgin </I>takes Bliss’s younger sister, Diana, as its star. Though she fights it at first, Bliss can’t help but be drawn into the romantic drama, forcing her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about love, her family, and herself.<P> <P>Fresh, engaging, and wickedly funny, <I>Imperfect Bliss </I>is a twenty-first century Jane Austen tale about the ways that courtship and love have changed—even as they’ve stayed the same. Says André Leon Talley, editor at large for <I>Vogue, “</I>This is reading as alluring as the best French perfume.”