Smile and Look Pretty

Name: Smile and Look Pretty
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Amanda Pellegrino
ISBN: 9781488211713

Author: Amanda Pellegrino

Narrator: Natalie Naudus

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harlequin Audio

Published: 03/08/2022

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Feminist, Women

Synopsis

“[A] 9 to 5 for the Instagram generation... Darkly funny and bitingly modern.” —Andrea Bartz, author of Reese’s Book Club Pick We Were Never Here

HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BY FORTUNE ⋅ FEMINIST BOOK CLUB ⋅ THE NERD DAILY ⋅ BOOKISH ⋅ MOTHERLY

What happens when four assistants risk everything to say enough is enough?

Best friends Cate, Lauren, Olivia and Max are overworked and underpaid assistants to some of the most powerful people in the entertainment industries. Like the assistants who came before them, the women know they have to pay their dues and abide the demeaning tasks and verbal abuse from their bosses in order to climb the ladders to their dream jobs.

But as they are passed over for promotions and the toxic office environments reach a breaking point, the women secretly start an anonymous blog detailing their experiences, which snowballs into hundreds of others coming forward with stories of their own. Confronted with newfound viral fame and the possibility of their identities being revealed, the assistants have to contend with the life-changing consequences of speaking out against those who refuse to share the power.

About Amanda Pellegrino

Amanda Pellegrino is a TV writer and novelist living in NYCwhose writing has appeared in Refinery29 and Bustle. Smileand Look Pretty is her debut novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on April 27, 2022

Hell yeah! I enjoy girl power books so much! This one is also about the discrimination, mannerism, inequality at workplace. 9 to 5 meets Devil wears Prada and Horrible Bosses vibes help us enjoy our journey! We’re introduced four best friends Cate, Lauren, Olivia, Max who are meeting each Friday to......more

Goodreads review by Michael on March 08, 2022

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! These women are coming for you. #timesup Cate, Lauren, Olivia, and Max are best friends who also work as assistants. They’re overworked, underpaid, and undervalued. They each have a terrible boss, and they’re getting very sick of the toxic behavior they have to put up with. When......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on March 08, 2022

Smile and Look Pretty by Amanda Pellegrino is a fictional contemporary story that dives into the #metoo movement. This one is described as a version of 9-5 for this generation and that description does fit. The story in Smile and Look Pretty is one that is told by changing the point of view between......more

Goodreads review by Sunny on September 01, 2022

4.5 rounded up Four women in NYC working as personal assistants for incredibly rich and powerful people across their various dream industries join forces to take their abusive, sexist, disgusting bosses and workplaces down— anonymously, to protect their own livelihoods and selves. I really enjoyed t......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 12, 2022

I adored this book and ate it up. Desperately needed after the string of books that were not pulling me in the way I wanted. The only thing holding it back from being a five star read- I think maybe there were too many POVs. Inevitably some of the girls got more page time than others, and inevitably......more