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Cover Girl Confidential

Cover Girl Confidential, March 2007
by Beverly Bartlett

5 Spot
Featuring: Addison
272 pages
ISBN: 0446695580
EAN: 9780446695589
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"Insightful and fun take on modern coming-to-America story."

Fresh Fiction Review

Cover Girl Confidential
Beverly Bartlett

Reviewed by Lissa Staley
Posted March 15, 2007

Romance Chick-Lit

From her prison cell, where she's awaiting deportation to a home country she's never seen, Addison writes out her version of the events that have led to her incarceration. To start at the beginning, her parents met, married and began their family while living at a refugee camp in Turkey. The family relocated to Slater County, Nebraska, when Ada was a little girl. She got her Irish-sounding name from the immigration official who misheard her shy whisper and wrote down Addison McGhee on the paperwork. Her mother still wears the veil and works as a Wal-Mart greeter and her father cleans floors in the local slaughterhouse. But Addison has come a long way from her awkward teens and has distanced herself from both her parent's culture and their Nebraska home. Addison tries to break into acting and modeling on the West Coast. After she's discovered by a fledgling gossip news network, she spends her time flirting on air with her co- host, Hughes, and making eyes at Baxter, the moody weatherman. She loves her job, and she loves discussing her own performances on her show's online message boards under an alias. Everything gets complicated when Addison comes back from Las Vegas married to one of her coworkers. Soon, an incriminating photograph of Addison at the White House hits the tabloids. After these events lead to her arrest and possible deportation, whatever is a cover girl to do? As Addison ponders her predicament, she shares her delightfully human experiences with breaking into the cult of celebrity, trying not to disappoint her parents, learning American etiquette from outdated books, starring on live television and falling in love. Beverly Bartlett's exploration of modern immigration, refugee families, and the assumptions and stereotypes about multi-racial children enlighten the reader within the gossipy innuendo of the story. Bartlett updates the coming-to-America story for the new millennium and gives us laughter, wisdom and insight in the process. COVER GIRL CONFIDENTIAL is a highly recommended chick-lit celebrity romance with an underlying significance for modern relationships.

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SUMMARY

She's the host of a wildly popular, top-rated morning show. Bride of a high-society golden boy. A veritable household name. An immigrant rags-to-riches story that's the American dream personified-and so perfect for Hollywood. Men want her. Women wish they could be her. But now Addison is in jail awaiting deportation and her celebrity rating is falling faster than a discount boob job. Maybe the First Lady's personal vendetta is to blame. (Addison insists that the president was pulling her onto his lap when that photo was taken.) Or perhaps everything started to go downhill when she threw exercise equipment at her husband on live TV. (Addison says the jerk had it coming.)


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