The Reasons Amandas Graduation Trip to New York City is About to Change Her Life Forever: 1. Back home in Eagle River, Wisconsin, you dont see many Hideously Ugly Hooker Shoes. 2. Here in Manhattan, you might just be walking down the street and get offered a top modeling contract -- on your very first day! 3. Her girlfriend Desi knows all the hippest vintage clothing The Reasons Amandas Graduation Trip to New York City is About to Change Her Life Forever: 1. Back home in Eagle River, Wisconsin, you dont see many Hideously Ugly Hooker Shoes. 2. Here in Manhattan, you might just be walking down the street and get offered a top modeling contract -- on your very first day! 3. Her girlfriend Desi knows all the hippest vintage clothing stores -- and where to buy a Marc Jacobs knock-off bag for $20. 4. Cannoli, cappuccino, tapas, knishes, gnocchi, chimichangas, samosas, and several hundred other unpronounceable but thoroughly delicious foods you can only eat when youre six feet tall. 5. Her sweetheart of a boyfriend, Tom, secretly promises theyll get married as soon as she comes home -- but shes suddenly not sure when that will be. 6. She discovers that her mom (who owns Pattys House O Pies in Eagle River) knows how to speak French -- and isnt saying where she learned how. 7. She finds out that the man she thought was her dad isnt her dad.... With the skewering eye and sharp humor of The Devil Wears Prada, Pamela Satrans wonderful Midwest-girl-in-the-Big-City novel is a delightful fairy-tale tour of Manhattans modeling world -- and a poignant adventure of self-discovery.