Soup in the City

When she's not abusing credit cards, caffeine and carbohydrates, Avery St. George wonders how to penetrate Manhattan's unforgiving outer shell. If she could just lose a few pounds and squeeze into the right labels, her friends might actually invite her to some of their A-list functions. But then Avery loses her lucrative hedge fund job and has much bigger questions to ponder. What happens to girls who spend all their money on Lanvin platform pumps and have nothing left for bus fare? Can one person really survive on twenty dollars a week? Has anyone ever died from the pressure of skull-crunching debt? As Avery rolls up her sleeves and sheds the excesses of her old life, she discovers that authenticity is the best accessory. And that sometimes you have to lose everything to find yourself.