Pretty Things

Booklist called Susan Compo “smart, sassy, and tough,” while Publishers Weekly praised her “witty, unflinching prose.” Compo’s narrative voice—satirical and allusive—has been compared to Dorothy Parker’s, and her characters display the same irresistible blend of smart-ass wit, despair, and whistling-in-the-dark bravado. Pretty Things offers both a sparkling portrait of a talent agent juggling the interests of her oddball clients, and a haunting memoir of growing up in suburban Orange County and coming of age in 1970s glitter-era Los Angeles. “No one writes prose like Susan Compo. She’s a complete Los -Angeles original—elegant, wistful, funny?.?.?. and not to be missed.”—Sandra Tsing Loh