The Cigarette Girl: A Novel

The Story

Elizabeth West is a twenty-eight-year-old smart girl in search of Mr. Maybe. The problem is, she lives in Los Angeles. And as a writer of testosterone-heavy screenplays -- blow-'em-up vehicles for eight-figure stars -- she deals with men who traffic in bimbos, which, like smog and palm trees, are a fixture of the L.A. landscape. But even though her job requires her to sound like one of the guys, she's every inch the girl, from her fear of bad lighting to her weakness for some of Hollywood's finest bad boys. With her female cohorts succumbing to marriage, Elizabeth coolly and methodically surveys the available options, a clever trailblazer determined to crack the code of love in the wild west. A salty, hilarious, Hollywood take on a timeless, universal dilemma, The Cigarette Girl is an utterly refreshing, absolutely engaging story of a maverick's pursuit of happiness.