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CHERRIES IN THE SNOW By: Emma Forrest
Three Rivers Press
January 2005
On Sale: January 25, 2005
288 pages ISBN: 140005365X EAN: 9781400053650 Paperback
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Romance Chick-Lit
Every Girl Needs Her Signature Color . . . Jailbait. Mystic Jukebox. Ass-Slapping Pink. Say Hello (and Wave Good-bye). Born to Run. These are some of the lipsticks offered by Grrrl cosmetics, colors that every hip young woman in the city just has to have. Sadie, a twenty- something Brit living in New York City, has the enviable job of creating these catchy namesβand sheβs good at it. What Sadie really wants, however, is to find the perfect moniker for Grrrlβs signature color, a color that will be loved by generations of women. A color name like Revlonβs famous Cherries in the Snow. Sadieβs own lip color changes with her mood: pink when sheβs feeling girlish, orangey brown when sheβs feeling sentimental, none at all when sheβs in love, and traffic- stopping red, painted in a perfect bow, when sheβs ready to end a relationship. In addition to her love of lipsticks, Sadie also has a penchant for much older menβnone of whom ever measure up to her father and none she ever wants to stick around that long. Enter Marley, a mysterious organic-food-eating, yoga- practicing graffiti artist close to her own age, who shows up in the Grrrl office one snowy day. . . . Sadie falls hard, and so does he. But Marley isnβt just devoted to Sadie; he also has a daughter, Montana, a precocious, possessive little girl who competes with Sadie for her daddyβs affections. This bizarre triangle is at the heart of Cherries in the Snowβa witty and sometimes dark saga of sex, the city, and the search for love . . . and the perfect red lipstickβfrom one of todayβs most daring writers of fiction.
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