A review by alexhouston
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman

5.0

“My life looked like a repeating decimal.” Read in quick succession after the trash masterpiece Valley of the Dolls. A perfect pair, parallel and divergent at once: women living during the so called turning point, obsessed with skin and hair and beauty and an abstract notion of independence, a blurred image of freedom that is always elusive. While we have developed new ways of talking about these things, this only buries the trickery deeper, heightens the illusion of progress.