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Published by Avon Trade
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Zoe Rose Never Quite Fit In. As the only kid in kindergarten with an enormous red afro, Zoe was
taunted by the other little girls for refusing to share her "Annie"
wig, even when she swore it was her own hair (it was). In second grade, after seeing her best friend ridiculed for wearing
a dirty, pink, polka-dot party dress to school every day, she became
obsessed with understanding what makes
normal girls tick and why they're so cruel to the girls who
never seem to "get it." And so Zoe begins a lifelong study of girl behavior, and by thirty,
finds herself editor of
Issues magazine. Determined to raid the locker room of the
female psyche and rip open the frilly
façade of femininity once and for all, she sets out to reform an entire
nation of women, beginning with the readers of the most notorious
magazine on Madison Avenue. It's the feminist vs. the fashionistas. Can Zoe stop girls from behaving badly toward other girls, and turn
them into a strong, united force that can succeed in our male-dominated
world? Or will her spectacularly warped sense of humor, pathetic
wardrobe, and plethora of psychosomatic illnesses get her eaten alive? Zoe's willing to risk losing it all, including her mind, but she'll
walk away with something she never dreamed she wanted: the little girl
hiding inside of her. pub date: 2006-11-01 | paperback | 9780061133886 |
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