The Cover Girl: A Novel | Amy Rossi
"Thrilling and glamorous as its runways and backstage parties, The Cover Girl is also heartbreaking and redemptive with an ending that made me cry. Birdie is a singular, unforgettable character whose story encapsulates so much of what led up to the #MeToo movement, and why the movement was so necessary." Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines Find them early enough, and they will always be her girls. Birdie Rhodes was only thirteen when legendary modeling agent Harriet Goldman discovered her in a department store and transformed her into one of Harriets Girls. What followed felt like the start of something incredible, a chance for shy Birdie to express herself in front of the camera. But two years later, she meets a thirty-one-year-old rock star, and her teenage heart falls hard as he leads her into a new life, despite Harriet's warnings. Then, as abruptly as it began, its over, like a lipstick-smeared fever dream. Birdie tries hard to forget that timestarting over in Paris, in the dying embers of the LA punk scene, in Boston at the height of the AIDS crisis. Shes not that person anymore. At least, thats what shes been telling herself. Decades later, Birdie lives a quiet life. She works modest gigs, takes Pilates and mostly keeps to herself. Maybe its not the glamor she once envisioned, but its peaceful. Comfortable. Then a letter arrives, inviting Birdie to celebrate Harriets fifty-year career. Except Birdie hasnt spoken to her in nearly thirty yearswith good reason. Almost famous, almost destroyed, Birdie can only make her own future if she reckons with her pastthe fame, the trauma, the opportunities she gave up for a man who brought her into a life she wasn't ready for. Just like shes not ready now. But the painful truth waits for nobody. Not even Birdie Rhodes. For fans of My Dark Vanessa and Taylor Jenkins Reid, this striking debut novel explores the dizzying fallout of being seen and not heard in a high-stakes industry that leaves no silhouette unscathed.
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