Luckiest Girl Alive: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (673 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00WFF5KEO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 463 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brilliant, devastating, real -- a gripping read Kathy Cunningham Jessica Knoll's LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE reads like a mash-up of Curtis Sittenfeld's PREP and anything by Gillian Flynn. Twenty-eight-year-old narrator Ani FaNelli is living what she thinks is the perfect life - "cool job, impressive zip code, hungry body, and the kicker - dreamboat fiancé." But from the first page, when she imagines plunging a steel blade into husband-to-be Luke Harrison, it's clear that whatever she exhibits to the world around her, something inside Ani is dark and broken and desperate. Because something hap. It Does Get Better Irish Throughout the first half of Luckiest Girl Alive, I kept thinking to myself, why am I reading this? Ani is a self indulged, miserable woman seemingly engaged to the perfect, wealthy man who she doesn't love and when she walks down memory lane, there is nothing, nothing, good there either. Ani, formerly TifAni, likes to do everything right in the upper crust society of New York. Details matter or someone may guess she is a phony who actually had to claw and fight her way to fit in to the role of New York Woman's Magazine writer a. "You Don't Know What You Have Till It's Gone (Girl)." according to MeanGreenZen. With Gone Girl comes a new genre of writing--one where things seem one way, and then masterfully shift to show they were something different the whole time, like that picture where you think you are looking at a vase and then find you are looking at two faces, or is it still a vase? The lines are the same, but your perception is changed to see things in a way that, although they were right in front of you the whole time, you didn't see before. Girl on A Train also does this well, even with a drunken narrator. In the case of this
Determined once and for all to silence the whispers of suspicion and blame, Ani must weigh her options carefully, when telling the whole truth could destroy the picture-perfect life she's worked so hard to create. Ani FaNelli is a complex and vulnerable heroine - one whose sharp edges protect a truth that will move, scandalize, and surprise you.. As her wedding draws near, a documentary producer invites Ani to speak about the chilling incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School. With a singular voice and a twist you won't see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the deep-seated desire to fit in and the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to "have it all". But Ani FaNelli is an invention, that veneer of perfection carefully assembled in an attempt to distance herself from a shocking, sordid past. Her Perfect Life Is a Perfect Lie Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: a glamorous job at a glossy magazine, an enviable figure with the wardrobe to match, and a hands