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Blythe Young—a wannabe Texas princess, a heroine as plucky, driven, and desperate as Vanity Fair’s Becky Sharp—is plummeting precipitously from up- to downstairs, banging her head on every step of the Austin social ladder as she falls. Not unlike the country as a whole, Blythe has surrendered to a multitude of dubious moral choices and is now facing the disastrous consequences: bankruptcy, public humiliation, a teensy fondness for the pharmaceuticals, and no Pap smear for ten years. But worst of all, she is forced to move back into the fleabag co-op boardinghouse where she lived when she was a student at the University of Texas. Though Blythe cares much more about the ravaged state of her nails, and how to get the ingredients for Code Warrior—Blythe’s proprietary blend of Stoli, Ativan, and Red Bull that keeps everything in focus—her soul is hanging in the balance. Only when she is in danger of losing the one friend who’s been her true moral center is she ready to face her sins and make amends. And her penance is merciless: she must find a way to lure her former socialite friends into the tofu tenement she has been reduced to. Little does Blythe know that the ensuing collision between the pierced, tattooed, and dreadlocked inhabitants and the pampered, Kir-sipping socialites offers the only hope of finding a way out of her moral quagmire. Funny, fast-paced, sharp-eyed, an old-fashioned morality tale with an appropriately twenty-first-century ending, How Perfect Is That is a comic triumph of a novel.

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How Perfect is That is a frothy little concoction of Blythe's misadventures in the world of pretending-to-be-rich (if...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 11:56:58 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 11:57:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 07 09:11:29 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 09:11:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 08:05:19 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 17:14:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 21:46:58 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 15:25:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 08:29:31 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 07:00:29 -0700 2009 Blythe Young has been given lemons... and has no idea how to make lemonade with them.

She was recently married to a very wealthy man and part of a well-known family, but sadly is now divorced and she made the mistake of signing a pre-nup. So she’s broke, wearing last years fashion, livi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 19:06:13 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 13:12:47 -0700 2009
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