One-Star Romance by Laura Hankin EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Laura Hankin
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Natalie Shapiro was twenty-four years old, walking down a city street
that smelled like hot garbage and possibility.
A couple of friends with whom she’d gone to college had moved out to
the suburbs—already!—and she imagined they spent their time breathing in
freshly mown grass. (And drinking wine? Waving to nosy neighbors?
Power walking while wearing visors? Natalie didn’t really know anything
about the suburbs.) Others had been picked off by consulting firms that sent
them across the country each week, and the smell of an airplane was more
familiar to them than that of their own bedsheets.
But to Natalie, that hot garbage stench was magic. Not that she wanted
to stand right over the trash bag to her left and take a deep breath, but it was
nice to know it was there. Because things weren’t supposed to be perfect
and manicured at this age, not when you were bravely pursuing what you
loved despite the difficulty of it.
Natalie loved writing. And sure, if the city’s most high-powered literary
agent appeared in front of her, leaping over the trash bag in her high heels
to scream, You! I could sense the power of your imagination from across the
street, and I’ve already gotten you a six-figure book deal!, Natalie would
have taken that in a heartbeat. (Well, she might’ve had some questions: Was
this agent in her right mind? Also, how did she jump in heels without
breaking an ankle? Assuming it all checked out, though, Natalie would’ve
signed right on the dotted line.)
But despite the occasional daydream, she knew it didn’t work that way.
Becoming a writer was tough, competitive. Anyone pursuing it was
supposed to struggle and get discouraged for a little while. In fact, the
struggle and the discouragement were what made a writer good. If
everything came too easily to someone, whatever art she made would
probably be shallow, doomed to be forgotten as soon as the reader turned
away. So, while a writer figured out what lit her soul on fire and how to
express that to the world, she worked a job she didn’t care about, or maybe
a handful of jobs she didn’t care about cobbled together.
At the moment,
Natalie had four part-time gigs: dog-walker, personal assistant to a
psychiatrist on the Upper West Side, caterer, and freelance writer for a
website that paid her fifteen dollars an hour to regurgitate the latest
celebrity gossip. She lived in a sixth-floor walk-up in a bedroom so tiny that
she’d had to buy a bed with drawers built in underneath the mattress
because there was no room for a bed and a dresser. To put on her clothes
every morning, she had to climb on her bed to make space to open the
drawers.
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