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Bibliophile by the Sea hosts First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros. This week's intro is from
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman:
When I was little, I was so girlie and ambitious, I was practically a drag queen. I wanted to be everything at once: a prima ballerina, an actress, a model, a famous artist, a nurse, an Ice Capades dancer, and Batgirl. I spent inordinate amounts of time waltzing around living room with a doily on my head, imagining in great detail my promenade down the runway as the new Miss America, during which time I would also happen to receive a Nobel Prize for coloring.
The one thing I did not want to be was a hippie.
"For Chrissake, you're not a hippie," said my mother, fanning incense around our living room with the sleeves of her dashiki. "You're four years old. You run around in a tutu. You eat TV dinners and complain when the food doesn't look exactly like it does on the packages. Hippies don't do that," she said. "Hippies don't make a big production out of eating their Tater Tots."
This sounds wonderful. The writing has really drawn me in, now I need to check this out in more detail...LOL
ReplyDeleteI read Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven and didn't like it much, but this sounds hilarious! I'm going to check it out now!
ReplyDeleteI love the title of this one, and these first paragraphs make it sound fun.
ReplyDeleteThe cover is priceless.
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