Citizen Girl

Citizen Girl follows an ambitious and idealistic young woman as she confronts what it means to be young and female in the new economy, where a college degree entitles you to make copies and color-coordinate file folders--if you're lucky. Struggling to keep up with the essentials of food, shelter, and student loans. Girl works with a group of waist-band-adverse women who refuse to acknowledge her talents or her ambition. But the "job from hell is nowhere near as bad as unemployment turns out to be so when Girl finally lands the job of her dreams she ignores her misgivings and concentrates on getting the job done...even though she's not quite sure what the job is...McLaughlin, Emma is the author of 'Citizen Girl', published 2004 under ISBN 9780743272278 and ISBN 0743272277.