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Author: Sanjena Sathian Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 198488204X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize “Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere “Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of 24-karat genius.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post How far would you go for a piece of the American dream? A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition. A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal. When he discovers that Anita is the beneficiary of an ancient, alchemical potion made from stolen gold—a “lemonade” that harnesses the ambition of the gold’s original owner—Neil sees his chance to get ahead. But events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. Years later in the Bay Area, Neil still bristles against his community's expectations—and finds he might need one more hit of that lemonade, no matter the cost. Sanjena Sathian’s astonishing debut offers a fine-grained, profoundly intelligent, and bitingly funny investigation into what's required to make it in America. Soon to be a series produced by Mindy Kaling!
Author: Sanjena Sathian Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 198488204X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize “Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere “Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of 24-karat genius.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post How far would you go for a piece of the American dream? A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition. A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal. When he discovers that Anita is the beneficiary of an ancient, alchemical potion made from stolen gold—a “lemonade” that harnesses the ambition of the gold’s original owner—Neil sees his chance to get ahead. But events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. Years later in the Bay Area, Neil still bristles against his community's expectations—and finds he might need one more hit of that lemonade, no matter the cost. Sanjena Sathian’s astonishing debut offers a fine-grained, profoundly intelligent, and bitingly funny investigation into what's required to make it in America. Soon to be a series produced by Mindy Kaling!
Author: Brian Donovan Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469660296 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 291
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The stereotype of the "gold digger" has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband. The term entered American vernacular in the 1910s as women began to assert greater power over courtship, marriage, and finances, threatening men's control of legal and economic structures. Over the course of the century, the gold digger stereotype reappeared as women pressed for further control over love, sex, and money while laws failed to keep pace with such realignments. The gold digger can be seen in silent films, vaudeville jokes, hip hop lyrics, and reality television. Whether feared, admired, or desired, the figure of the gold digger appears almost everywhere gender, sexuality, class, and race collide. This fascinating interdisciplinary work reveals the assumptions and disputes around women's sexual agency in American life, shedding new light on the cultural and legal forces underpinning romantic, sexual, and marital relationships.
Author: Fred Perry Publisher: Antarctic Press ISBN: 9780930655297 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 600
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Call Fort Knox, 'cause Fred Perry's adding another Gold Brick to the pile! This colossal color collection picks up with the milestone 101st color issue, introducing Gina's life as a teacher and some of the many delights and dangers of the Age of Wonders! There's buried cities, relics of the first superheroes, a living super-storm, a baby Saurian, the return of Madrid, and much more! New and familiar faces, friendships and enmities forged, desperate battles fought... oh, and Lowtor tries to marry Ayane.
Author: Baje Fletcher Publisher: Glitz and Glamour Publishing ISBN: 9780615248240 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 0
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Fletcher's guide discusses how to dress, what to say, which environments to frequent, and what subjects to study, in order to attract wealthy men with one's mind and not by using sex.
Author: Liz Tolsma Publisher: Barbour Publishing ISBN: 1643527142 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
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Fiction Based on Strange, But True, History True, riveting stories of American criminal activity are explored through a unique stories of historical romantic suspense. Collect them all and be inspired by the hope that always finds its way even in the darkest of times. In 1907, shy but loyal Ingrid Storset travels from Norway to support her grieving sister, Belle Gunness, who owns a farm in LaPorte, Indiana. Well-to-do widow Belle, who has lost two husbands and several children, provides Ingrid with enough money to start a small business. But Ingrid is confused by the string of men Belle claims to be interviewing for her next husband. When Nils Lindherud comes to town looking for his missing brother, who said he was going to marry Belle, Ingrid has a sinking feeling her sister is up to no good.
Author: Constance Rosenblum Publisher: Metropolitan Books ISBN: 1627798242 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 288
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A sparkling biography of the original blonde whom gentlemen preferred, a woman who made a career of marrying millionaires and became the first tabloid celebrity. One of America's most talked about personalities during the Jazz Age, Peggy Hopkins Joyce was the quintessential gold digger, the real-life Lorelei Lee. Married six times, to several millionaires and even a count, Joyce had no discernible talent except self-promotion. A barber's daughter from Norfolk, Virginia, who rose to become a Ziegfeld Girl and, briefly, a movie star, Joyce was the precursor of the modern celebrity-a person famous for being famous. Her scandalous exploits-spending a million dollars in a week, conducting torrid love affairs with the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Walter Chrysler-were irresistible to the new breed of tabloid journalists in search of sensation and to audiences hungry for the possibilities her life seemed to promise. Joyce's march across Broadway, Hollywood, and the nation's front pages was only slowed by the true nemesis of the glamour girl: old age. She died in 1957, alone and forgotten-until now. In prose as vibrant as its subject, Constance Rosenblum's Gold Digger brings to life the woman who singularly epitomized this confident and hedonistic era.
Author: Tyler Moses Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781522024088 Category : Languages : en Pages : 71
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Becoming a gold digger is not as simple or convenient as it might sound. Rather than seeming the easy choice, if you have the right-sized assets and come to bed eyes, gold digging is in fact a craft that needs to be highly-toned and practised in order for you to be able to reap the rewards of richness and luxury. There are so many angles and pitfalls to consider because, even if you think you look the part, you have to succeed in beating the competition. Every man out there with a hefty wallet will have a score of women after him, all hoping to enjoy their time in his fortune and then taking most of it in a beautiful divorce. There will be skilled and unskilled opponents, but you will have to defeat them all. This book offers you the expertise to prune and prepare yourself to be the one that prevails, advising on all the skills you need to acquire and how to go about choosing your prey. Gold digging demands a perfectly orchestrated performance and, considering that it is your future at stake, you don't want to leave a stone unturned in being the best that you can be. A Comedy, Sarcastic, Tongue In Cheek Humour Book Not for the easily offended!
Author: Rebecca Rosenberg Publisher: ISBN: 9780578427799 Category : Gold mines and mining Languages : en Pages : 318
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1878. Pampered Baby Doe proves tougher than anyone imagines when she finds herself abandoned, pregnant and running a gold mine alone. Her pluck gains the admiration of Silver King Horace Tabor, married, twice her age, and running for U.S. Senator. When scandal and economic ruin threatens Tabor's life, Baby Doe must make a painful choice.
Author: Tasmina Perry Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416585095 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 577
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The international bestseller! The book beaches were made for! When New York billionaire Adam Gold moves to London, every red-blooded woman wants to get him into bed...and down the aisle. Karin is a successful fashion entrepreneur and London's most glamorous socialite. Her name is synonymous with style and class, and Adam Gold could be her perfect accessory -- but can the whispers surrounding her ex-husband's death keep her from her prize? Erin, a young, naïve country girl with literary aspirations, never dreamed of traveling in such lofty social circles until she finds herself in the role of Adam's personal assistant and protégé. As her sights grow higher, the promise of riches, and lust for her handsome boss, threaten everything she once valued. Molly, a fading eighties supermodel, can't seem to leave her glory days, or her expensive drug habit, in the past. Ultracompetitive, unabashedly ruthless, Molly will risk everything to secure the man who may be her last chance at marriage. Summer, Molly's daughter, is an innocent beauty living in the shadow of her famous mother. When she lands a television deal and becomes the latest "it girl," Adam Gold takes notice. From Monte Carlo to Lake Como, St. Moritz to St. Barts, Gold Diggers takes a heady journey through the social circuit of the superrich into a world of sizzling passion, ruthless ambition and scorching betrayal.
Author: Charlotte Gray Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1582437653 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 433
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Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of over thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history. Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life—not only prospectors but also newspapermen, bankers, prostitutes, priests, and lawmen. Gold Diggers follows six stampeders—Bill Haskell, a farm boy who hungered for striking gold; Father Judge, a Jesuit priest who aimed to save souls and lives; Belinda Mulrooney, a twenty–four–year–old who became the richest businesswoman in town; Flora Shaw, a journalist who transformed the town's governance; Sam Steele, the officer who finally established order in the lawless town; and most famously Jack London, who left without gold, but with the stories that would make him a legend. Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories, Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever.
Author: Sanjena Sathian
Author: Sanjena Sathian
Author: Brian Donovan
Author: Fred Perry
Author: Baje Fletcher
Author: Liz Tolsma
Author: Constance Rosenblum
Author: Tyler Moses
Author: Rebecca Rosenberg
Author: Tasmina Perry
Author: Charlotte Gray