Laurie nearly gives her mother a heart attack when her bare toe pokes through a hideous hole in her pantyhose during a doctor's visit. Her mother realizes that with credentials like these, Laurie will never join the ranks of perfect little queens she desperately wants her daughter to resemble. Laurie takes pride in this failure. She and her friends form their own alternative caste, a highly selective club of solidarity among "idiotic girls" who are too genuine for the "intelligent" crowd. Laurie navigates a jungle of skinny, elegant girls with perfectly polished nails but finds them utterly boring. Her world includes lazy and clueless boyfriends, morning-after amnesia, a mother who dispenses judgments like a courtroom judge, absurd job interviews, cosmic key losses, and various mishaps. Through heavy doses of irony and humor, this clumsy but capable girl carves her path with laughter and sarcasm.
Genres: fiction, humor, contemporary, comedy, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, outsiders
Period: 21st-Century
232 pages · Paperback · Piemme