{"product_id":"9781453238349","title":"Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow with a new preface: The “furious, fiercely funny, provocative” novel about female rebellion written decades before the #MeToo movement (Dani Shapiro, author of \u003ci\u003eInheritance\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Sasha Davis, smart and pretty, was once an all-American teenage beauty queen. Full of potential, she was the only student at her Midwestern high school to attend college on the East Coast.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e But soon her promise begins to falter. After starting graduate school in New York, Sasha gets married and drops out to take a clerical job. Consigned to the role of trophy wife, and already feeling old at twenty-four, she lives in fear of turning thirty—the year, in her mind, when her beauty will fade and life as she knows it will end.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Only after a lot of sexual adventures—as well as a second marriage and motherhood—will she finally begin to figure out what’s gone wrong . . .\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Poignant and breathtakingly honest, \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen\u003c\/i\u003e remains a feminist landmark—a unique blend of “fun” (\u003ci\u003eJezebel\u003c\/i\u003e) and “devastating” (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This story, told with astringent wit, explores every facet and cliché of what it means to grow up female and beautiful.” \u003ci\u003e—San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A vivid reminder of just how much―and sometimes, how little―has changed for women . . . Typing prowess and wedding-night virginity may no longer be expected, but Shulman’s tale of Sasha Davis’s struggle to find herself amid conflicting cultural messages about beauty, brains, and sex will be resonant for many more years to come.” ―Andi Zeisler, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Were Feminists Once\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An extraordinary novel.” ―\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155047301360,"sku":"9781453238349","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453238349_p0.jpg?v=1769907032","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453238349","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}