Knopf
June 2008
On Sale: June 10, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0307268284
EAN: 9780307268280
Hardcover
$23.95
Fiction, Contemporary, Women's Fiction
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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