<p>Everyone expected big things from Ariel Thompkins. Wasn&rsquo;t she the girl who&rsquo;d roped her friends into one madcap adventure after another, who&rsquo;d met the challenge of losing both parents before turning eighteen, who&rsquo;d gone on to graduate summa cum laude from UCLA? So how did this livewire end up delivering the day&rsquo;s mail for the U.S. Postal Service, hunkering down each night with her half-blind cat in front of the TV, ruminating over the width of her thighs? It looked as though it would take a miracle to get her out of her rut.</p><p>Who knew that miracle would come in the form of an acutely candid best friend and a motley crew of strangers&mdash;a homeless drunk once aptly nicknamed &ldquo;Nosy,&rdquo; a lonely old woman seeing catastrophe around every corner, a shy teenager fleeing sexual abuse, a handsome young transplant from the Midwest with a passion for acting and for Ariel herself? Not to mention the fossil remains of a flat-faced crone who just might have been the ancestress of everyone alive today?</p><p><em>Chasing Eve</em> takes us on a funny, sad, hair-raising adventure into the underbelly of the City of Angels, where society&rsquo;s invisible people make a difference to themselves and to others, and where love sometimes actually saves the day.</p>