The book, Isa's putative diary, is chock-full of aperçus. When the girls try to improve their minds by attending a boring lecture on the new Belle Epoque touted in the New Yorker, Gala wonders, "Do you think they have a list of who's in the One Percent?" It would certainly make things more efficient. As audience members at a TV shoot, they "only get fifty dollars each, but collectively, that's at least one late-night cab home, a dozen oysters during happy hour, a small bottle of Tanqueray, and maybe one unlimited seven-day MetroCard." They respond to ads looking for foot models and makeup shoots, one seeking "a pair of friends, one of whom had to be Diverse." ("Diverse" is about all we ever really know about Isa's background Gala, we learn in a throwaway remark, was a Bosnian baby refugee.) Being members of what one acquaintance calls the "precariat" can be exhausting. Since the latter turns out to be quite the losing operation, they are constantly looking for gigs that pay cash. They plan to use their pretty faces as passports to the New York demimonde and to make grocery money by selling dresses at a market stall. A pair of beautiful, undocumented party girls live the high life in New York.though they literally do not know where their next meal is coming from.Īs this glamorous, intelligent debut novel opens, 21-year-old best friends Isa and Gala land in New York to spend the summer.
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