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Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe
Jenny Hollowell
Holt Paperbacks
June 2010
On Sale: June 8, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 080509119X
EAN: 9780805091199
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A young woman caught at the turning point between success
and failure hopes fame and fortune will finally let her
leave her old life—and her old self—behind Birdie Baker has always dreamed of becoming someone else. At
twenty-two, she sets off to do just that. Walking out on her
pastor husband and deeply evangelical parents, she leaves
behind her small-town, small-time life and gets on a bus to
Los Angeles. Nine years later, Birdie's life in Hollywood is far from
golden, and nothing in the intervening years—the brutal
auditions, the tawdry commercials—has brought her any closer
to the transformation she craves. Caught between success and
failure, haunted by guilt about a tragedy in her
long-forsaken family, Birdie is at the brink of collapse
when she meets Lewis, a beautiful but naïve young actor with
his own troubled history, whose self-destructive impulses
run dangerously parallel to her own. When her big chance finally comes, Birdie must reconcile the
wide-eyed girl she once was with the jaded starlet she has
become and try to find herself and her future somewhere in
between. Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe is the story of
a young woman's struggle to make her own way in the
Technicolor land of make-believe.
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