Oh! You Pretty Things Hardcover - 2015

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A Hollywood native from the wrong side of the Walk of Fame makes a play for star status (Cosmopolitan)in Shanna Mahin s acclaimed novel, called quite a breakout by The New York Times.

Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she s got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she s a dead girl walking.
Enter Jess s mother a failed actress who puts the strange in estrangement. She dives headlong into her daughter s downward spiral, forcing Jess to muster all her spite and self-preservation to snag a career upgrade.
As a personal assistant for a famous (and secretly agoraphobic) film composer, Jess s workdays are now filled with shopping for luxury goods and cooking in his perfectly designed kitchen. Jess kills at cooking, a talent that only serves her intensifying urge to dig in to Los Angeles s celebrity buffet.
When her food garners the attention of an actress on the rise, well, she s all too willing to throw it in with the composer and upgrade again, a decision that will have far-reaching ramifications that could explode all her relationships.
All the while, her mother looms ever closer, forcing Jess to confront the traumatic secrets she s been running from all her life.
Oh! You Pretty Thingsis a dizzying ride at the carnival of fame, a fast-paced and sharply funny work that dares to imagine what happens when we go over the top in a town of gilded excess."

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