She has been writing ever since. Unlike the title of her book, as an undergraduate at NYU, a regular contributor to Marie Claire and Mademoiselle, and having sold her first book at the age of nineteen, she is not a normal girl. Jong-Fast's debut novel uses the topics she writes about for these magazines -- food, drugs, shoe-shopping -- as the bones for her story of a privileged young woman's fall and her resurrection. The novel will shock you with its candor, and will pique your expectations. "We live in a society extremes. Fame and fortune burn at match rate -- one can be an afterthought before one is twenty". But fortunately for Jong-Fast, all signs are that she's here to stay.