Any Place I Hang My Hat

Description for ANY PLACE I HANG MY HAT by Susan Isaacs:

Amy wasn't born to fortune. Her mother abandoned her before her first birthday and her father couldn't handle anything as conventional as parenting. Amy worked for her luck. At age fourteen, she got herself a scholarship to a New England boarding school, then to Harvard, then to Columbia School of Journalism. She's smart, she's enterprising, but after a few years as a reporter for a prestigious magazine, she doesn't know who she is or how to connect.