Box Girl

Box Girl My Part Time Job as an Art Installation

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Publisher's Synopsis

"When 22-year-old Lilibet Snellings moved to Los Angeles on a whim, she unintentionally became a "slash" to keep her head above water-a writer/waitress/actress/Box Girl. One night each week, Lilibet would go to The Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, don a pair of white boy shorts with a matching tank, touch up her lip gloss, and crawl into a giant glass case behind the front desk. There, she could do whatever she wanted-check email, catch up on reading, even sleep-as long as she ignored the many hotel guests who would point and ask the staff, "Is she allowed to use the bathroom?" (Yes.) Dog-paddling through her twenties, Snellings resisted financial bailouts (for the most part) from her sweet Southern mother and business-oriented dad, while pondering her peculiar position as a human art installation. Was she a piece of art or a piece of ass? Was she allowed to read both Walt Whitman and US Weekly as she lounged in an oversized, waterles

Book information

ISBN: 9781593765415
Publisher: Penguin Random House Group
Imprint: Soft Skull Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 702.81
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 248
Weight: 272g
Height: 209mm
Width: 139mm
Spine width: 23mm