"Randa, what`s wrong with you?" "Nothing. I mean, I`m a crazy cocaine addict with a hankering for heroin, but other than that, I`m just a nice Jewish girl from the Upper East Side with Prada shoes. How could anything be wrong?" Molly Jong-Fast`sNormal Girlis striking-and as funny as it as real. Inspired by her own experiences growing up in the decadent, fast-paced netherworld of New York City`s jet set, Jong-Fast`s debut novel is a hilarious, hard-edged walk past the velvet rope. At just nineteen, Miranda Woke seems to have it all. Her parents are famous socialites, she`s already been written up on Page Six sixteen times, she`s on all the right invitation lists, and drugs and alcohol are never in short supply. But while her image screams "It girl," she`d rather be a normal girl, and the A-list feels even more uncomfortable than her Manolo Blahnik shoes. In fact, she`s become the "living embodiment of an awkward phase" with "more issues than Harper`s Bazaar." Neither Xanax nor Deepak Chopra tapes help. And now that her junkie party has trashed her parents` house, she has to liquidate her trust fund to pay Mom`s decorator for a quick fix. But worst of all, Miranda thinks she just murdered her own boyfriend. In an all-too-glamorous world where the cell phone is always ringing, Miranda sees no escape other than a downward spiral of cocaine, Valium, and heroin. It takes friends who offer more than air kisses to force Miranda to look in the mirror and get some help.
