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| Photo of Shanna Mahin by Betsy and Jeff McCue |
Think “Mommy Dearest” meets “The Devil Wears Prada.” Shanna Mahin’s debut novel, Oh! You Pretty Things, is deliciously and entertainingly malevolent.
It’s the perfect book for a grey, rainy day. Stay in your jammies (preferably the ones with the feet), grab as much junk food as you can find in the house, pull the covers up and enjoy. It’s an excellent antidote to an overload of serious, grim, self-consciously Literary (with a capital ‘L”) books.
First: the Mom.
Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood (just like the author), mostly raised by her grandmother. She is the daughter of Donna, a failed child actress, who bounces back into her life between affairs, mostly to
