The Pickle Girl

Résumé du livre

Have you ever had a really bad day? If so, then you have an idea of what seventeen-year-old Rosalina Oliverio's whole life is like. To begin with, she's lured into a job at Sally Rand's Nude Ranch at the 1939 World's Fair on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. And when she finds she's pregnant by a boy friend who is "not ready to commit," she enters a marriage of convenience with a gay playboy. Widowed by a senseless murder, she's implicated in an armed robbery and is obliged to become the mistress of a man she detests. The question is not whether she'll achieve her quest to escape poverty, it's whether she'll make it to eighteen.