Synopses & Reviews
When Sunny Langstein decides to pack up Florida life and move in with her boyfriend inManhattan, her big sister isn't thrilled. What modern-day twenty-four-year-old leaves her promising career, fabulous friends and perfect underground parking spot with accompanying convertible for . . . a guy?
Only, Sunny has an additional incentive: the chance to star on Party Girls, the latest reality-television show. True, she might become a national laughingstock and it pays nothing, BUT it's a job -- a job in Manhattan. She'll get to be with her boyfriend, Steve. Okay, so she can't tell anyone she isn't single -- but with freebie designer clothes, alpha-beta peels and coconut-cream pedicures to make her transformation into a made-for-TV single girl complete . . . she can't lose!
But when the show's premier plunges Sunny into a media frenzy of talk shows, tampon endorsements, TV heartthrobs and S&M toys, how long will it take for Sunny to lose track of where she ends and her alter ego, Sunny Lang the _ber Fashionista Single Superstar, begins?
Review
"Mlynowski is acutely aware of the plight of the 20-something single woman . . . she offers funny dialogue and several slices of reality." (Publishers Weekly)
Synopsis
Packing up and leaving behind friends and a promising career in Florida to move in with the boyfriend in NYC doesn't epitomize the modern-day woman. But for 24-year-old Sunny Langstein the decision is a no-brainer, especially when she is given the chance to star on "Party Girls, a new reality-television show. The only catch: "Party Girls have to be single. If anyone finds out about Steve, she'll e off the show. No problem there--Sunny is good at pretending. But TV stardom is addictive, and before long, Sunny loses track of where she ends and her alter ego, Sunny Lang, the Uber Single Superstar, begins. Torn between celebrity and Steve's unexpected marriage proposal, Sunny finds her life beginning to unravel in dramatic style....
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