Pages: 266
Format: eARC
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Goodreads: Nineteen-year-old Zippy can hardly believe it: she's the newest and youngest salesgirl at I. Magnin, "San Francisco's Finest Department Store." Every week, she rotates her three spruced-up Salvation Army outfits and Vaseline-shined pumps; still, she's thrilled to walk those pumps through the employee entrance five days a week as she saves to buy something new. For a girl who grew up in a one-bedroom apartment above a liquor store with her mother and her mother's madcap boyfriend, Howard; a girl who wanted to go to college but had no help in figuring out how; I. Magnin represents a real chance for a better and more elegant life. Or, at the very least, a more interesting one.
Zippy may not be in school, but she's about to get an education that will stick with her for decades. Her fellow salesgirls (lifetime professionals) run the gamut from mean and indifferent to caring and helpful. The cosmetics ladies on the first floor share both samples and advice ("only date a man with a Rolex"); and her new roommate, Raquel, an ambitious lawyer, tells Zippy she can lose ten pounds easy if she joins Raquel in eating only every other day. Just when Zippy thinks she's getting a handle on how to be an adult woman in 1985, two surprises threaten both her sense of self and her coveted position at I. Magnin.
Kritters Thoughts: What a fun book! Zippy is a young woman in the 80s who has been working at a dress shop and is surrounded by the most fun cast of characters. Zippy doesn't have a lot, but she does have the drive to make this job into a career.
While Zippy was for sure the main character, the cast of characters surrounding here were so entertaining. I loved Zippy, but I loved even more how she reacted with the ladies around her. AND the inner workings of a dress shop were so fun. The ladies coming and going and getting their outfits picked out - I wanted to watch a tv show based on this store and these women.
I found this book to be the right amount of young girl big city and I loved following Zippy through the ups and downs of this book. I would recommend this book to those who love this kind of story, who love to follow a young girl through a great story arc. I love when I finish a story and I just wish a sequel was on its way because I could have used more of Zippy when this one was done.
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