LIVING OPRAH:
My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk
By Robyn Okrant
Center Street/Hachette Book Group
Publication Date: January 2010
Contact: Megan Beatie, 818-678-6288; mbeatie@goldbergmcduffie.com
Or Liza Lucas , 212-446-5102; llucas@goldbergmcduffie.com

On January 1, 2008, a 35-year-old “average” woman em­barked on a year-long journey with Oprah as her guide, following every piece of advice offered in Oprah’s show, magazine, and Web site. Robyn Okrant did everything Oprah said to do, from creating her personal Vision Board to buying leopard print flats. She cooked Oprah’s favorite turkey burgers, de-cluttered, got her jeans tai­lored, removed her husband’s TV from their bedroom, joined Oprah’s Book Club, worked out according to Oprah’s Best Life Challenge…the list goes on.

Okrant chose to do this when she realized that of all the cultural influences on American women, perhaps Oprah’s is the single most prevalent one, so she wanted to put it to the test. The results ranged from positive to life changing to hysterical to not so pos­itive, like most things in life. Month by month, LIVING OPRAH chronicles the assignments, advice, and suggestions given by Oprah, a running tally of the financial and time costs required to do each as­signment, the results of poll questions the author posted on her Living Oprah blog, and reflections on the results and revelations that Okrant experienced along the way.

This powerful “year in the life” memoir is both truly personal and also a telling reflection on our culture. For more information, visit www.livingoprah.com.