The Home for Wayward Supermodels

The Home for Wayward Supermodels

<b>The Reasons Amanda's Graduation Trip to New York City is About to Change Her Life Forever:</b> <BR> <BR> 1. Back home in Eagle River, Wisconsin, you don't see many Hideously Ugly Hooker Shoes. <BR> <BR> 2. Here in Manhattan, you might just be walking down the street and get offered a top modeling contract -- on your very first day! <BR> <BR> 3. Her girlfriend Desi knows all the hippest vintage clothing stores -- and where to buy a Marc Jacobs knock-off bag for $20. <BR> <BR> 4. Cannoli, cappuccino, tapas, knishes, gnocchi, chimichangas, samosas, and several hundred other unpronounceable but thoroughly delicious foods you can only eat when you're six feet tall. <BR> <BR> 5. Her sweetheart of a boyfriend, Tom, secretly promises they'll get married as soon as she comes home -- but she's suddenly not sure when that will be. <BR> <BR> 6. She discovers that her mom (who owns Patty's House O' Pies in Eagle River) knows how to speak French -- and isn't saying where she learned how. <BR> <BR> 7. She finds out that the man she thought was her dad isn't her dad.... <BR> <BR> With the skewering eye and sharp humor of <i>The Devil Wears Prada,</i> Pamela Satran's wonderful Midwest-girl-in-the-Big-City novel is a delightful fairy-tale tour of Manhattan's modeling world -- and a poignant adventure of self-discovery.