Lynn Caraganis Knihy

Louise Merrill looks back on her first trip to Paris in 1938, when she was a nineteen-year-old fashion apprentice in Columbus, Ohio

A surreal satire of American life and language follows seventeen-year-old Vicki Fowler, an orphan who moves into the fabulous ranch house of her mysterious cousin Itzel and experiences the joys and cliches of American pop culture