Synopses & Reviews
Every Girl Needs Her Signature Color . . .
Jailbait. Mystic Jukebox. Ass-Slapping Pink. Say Hello (and Wave Good-bye). Born to Run. These are some of the lipsticks offered by Grrrl cosmetics, colors that every hip young woman in the city just has to have. Sadie, a twenty-something Brit living in New York City, has the enviable job of creating these catchy namesand shes good at it. What Sadie really wants, however, is to find the perfect moniker for Grrrls signature color, a color that will be loved by generations of women. A color name like Revlons famous Cherries in the Snow.
Sadies own lip color changes with her mood: pink when shes feeling girlish, orangey brown when shes feeling sentimental, none at all when shes in love, and traffic-stopping red, painted in a perfect bow, when shes ready to end a relationship. In addition to her love of lipsticks, Sadie also has a penchant for much older mennone of whom ever measure up to her father and none she ever wants to stick around that long.
Enter Marley, a mysterious organic-food-eating, yoga-practicing graffiti artist close to her own age, who shows up in the Grrrl office one snowy day. . . . Sadie falls hard, and so does he. But Marley isnt just devoted to Sadie; he also has a daughter, Montana, a precocious, possessive little girl who competes with Sadie for her daddys affections. This bizarre triangle is at the heart of Cherries in the Snowa witty and sometimes dark saga of sex, the city, and the search for love . . . and the perfect red lipstickfrom one of todays most daring writers of fiction.
Synopsis
This witty, wise novel is the tale of Sadie, a young woman with a serious penchant for older men--who finally grows up once she takes the girliest of jobs--naming colors at a makeup company.
About the Author
Emma Forrest is a novelist and screenwriter. She is the author of Namedropper and Thin Skin and lives in New York City.