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Combining the honesty, warmth, and humor of Queenie and a modern-day
Bridget Jones's Diary, this entertaining, transportive, and luminous
debut novel from award-winning writer Breanne Mc Ivor follows a young
Trinidadian woman finding her voice and a new kind of happy ending.
"Phenomenal! A book worthy of a standing ovation. I will never forget
how this novel made me feel. It's effortlessly beautiful."--Lizzie
Damilola Blackburn, author of Yinka, Where is your Huzband?
Bianca Bridge has always dreamt of becoming a writer. But Trinidadian
society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married
government official is a sure-fire way to ruin your prospects. So when
Obadiah Cortland, a notoriously tyrannical entrepreneur in the island's
beauty scene, offers her a job, Bianca accepts, realizing that working
on his magazine is the closest to her dreams she'll get.
As Bianca begins to embrace her power and creative voice, she starts to
suspect Obadiah is not the elite tyrant he seems. She's right. Born in
one of the poorest parts of Trinidad, Obadiah has clawed partway up
society's ladder and built his company around his meticulously crafted
persona. Now, he's not about to let anyone, especially Bianca, see past
his façade.
When Bianca's ex-lover threatens everything she's rebuilt, jeopardizing
all she's come to love about her new life, she's surprised to find
support from the most unlikely ally and, finally, draws the strength to
fight back like her mother taught her.
Sharp-witted and fiercely fun, The God of Good Looks alternates
between Bianca's diary entries and Obadiah's first-person narrative to
portray modern Trinidad's rigid class barriers and the fraught impact of
beauty commodification in a patriarchal society. Boisterous, moving, and
full of meaty, universally relatable questions, Mc Ivor's sparkling
debut is an open-hearted, awakening tale about prejudice and pride, the
masks we wear, and what we can become if we dare to take them off.
