{"product_id":"everything-lovely-effortless-safe-9780805091199","title":"Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young woman caught at the turning point between success and failure hopes fame and fortune will finally let her leave her old life--and her old self--behind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirdie Baker has always dreamed of becoming someone else. At twenty-two, she sets off to do just that. Walking out on her pastor husband and deeply evangelical parents, she leaves behind her small-town, small-time life and gets on a bus to Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine years later, Birdie's life in Hollywood is far from golden, and nothing in the intervening years--the brutal auditions, the tawdry commercials--has brought her any closer to the transformation she craves. Caught between success and failure, haunted by guilt about a tragedy in her long-forsaken family, Birdie is at the brink of collapse when she meets Lewis, a beautiful but naive young actor with his own troubled history, whose self-destructive impulses run dangerously parallel to her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her big chance finally comes, Birdie must reconcile the wide-eyed girl she once was with the jaded starlet she has become and try to find herself and her future somewhere in between. \u003ci\u003eEverything Lovely, Effortless, Safe\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a young woman's struggle to make her own way in the Technicolor land of make-believe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805091199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/26\/2010 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jenny Hollowell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38016620265653,"sku":"9780805091199","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2f5dbeb0-2d1e-4da6-b26d-ad30a41c54c6.jpg?v=1609160118","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/everything-lovely-effortless-safe-9780805091199","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}