Oh! You Pretty Things

Oh! You Pretty Things

<b>“A Hollywood native from the wrong side of the Walk of Fame makes a play for star status” <b>(</b><i>Cosmopolitan</i><b>)</b><i> </i><b>in Shanna Mahin’s acclaimed novel, called “quite a breakout”  by </b><i>The New York Times</i>.<br></b><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>All the while, her mother looms ever closer, forcing Jess to confront the traumatic secrets she’s been running from all her life. <br><br><i>Oh! You Pretty Things </i>is 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.