{"product_id":"pretty-isbn-9780452297340","title":"Pretty","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn electrifying debut novel from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSome Girls\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBebe Baker is an ex-everything: ex-stripper, ex-Christian, ex-drug addict, ex-pretty girl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's been one year since the car accident that killed her boyfriend left her scarred and shaken. Flanked by an eccentric posse of friends, she is serving out a self-imposed sentence at a halfway house, while trying to finish cosmetology school. Amid the rampant diagnoses, over-medication, compulsive eating, and acrylic nails of Los Angeles, Bebe looks for something to believe in before something--her past, the dangerously magnetic men in her life, her own bad choices--knocks her off course again.\"Jillian Lauren writes with stunning, furious authenticity about self-destruction and the bitter road toward redemption. \"Pretty\" will knock the breath right out of you.\"—\u003cb\u003eJanelle Brown, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll We Ever Wanted Was Everything\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“PRETTY is the real deal, a harrowing journey from darkness to light  to real life. Bebe’s unflinching, street-level search for salvation absolutely floored me, and Jillian Lauren’s writing shimmers throughout with wit and authenticity.”—\u003cb\u003eAntoine Wilson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Interloper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Pretty \u003c\/i\u003eis the not-so-pretty, utterly riveting, non-stop frantic and compulsively readable saga of Bebe Baker, a heroine who knows her way around a serious binge. Jillian Lauren renders the taste and feel of wretched excess - be it sex, drugs, food, or Los Angeles - with a savage veracity and style all her own.  The prose, at times, drives with such ferocious urgency that the words seem not so much written as \u003ci\u003ewilled\u003c\/i\u003e  onto the page. \u003ci\u003ePretty\u003c\/i\u003e stands out as a triumph of survival testimony. The author, plainly, is lucky to have survived - but the reader is luckier.  Jillian Lauren is the real deal.”—\u003cb\u003eJerry Stahl, author of \u003ci\u003ePermanent Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“BeBe Baker knows the ugliness of the world, yet finds plain truths in the multicultural pageantry of eastern Los Angeles. She is the kid you want to protect, the girl you’d definitely be friends with, the obliviously fetching female that all the boys love—an unlikely, unforgettable hero with a forever-searching soul. \u003ci\u003ePretty\u003c\/i\u003e’s true beauty, however, is the author’s ability to lovingly capture life’s microscopic details—right down to the cuticles—and offer them back up to us as communion.”—\u003cb\u003eShawna Kenney, author of \u003ci\u003eI Was a Teenage Dominatrix\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImposters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJillian Lauren\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, storyteller, mom, and rock-wife. She is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the memoirs \u003ci\u003eEverything You Ever Wanted \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSome Girls: My Life in a Harem\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003ePretty\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eSome Girls\u003c\/i\u003e has been translated into 18 different languages and is currently being adapted for TV. She has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe lives with her husband, musician Scott Shriner, and their two sons in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003ewww.jillianlauren.com","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44886672605413,"sku":"NP9780452297340","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452297340.jpg?v=1767735080","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/pretty-isbn-9780452297340","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}