Shopgirls

Description

In 1985 San Francisco, nineteen-year-old Zippy lands a coveted job at I. Magnin, the city’s most exclusive department store, and sees it as her chance to build a more glamorous, independent life. As she navigates demanding customers, eccentric colleagues, beauty-counter wisdom, and the complicated rules of adulthood, the store becomes an unexpected education in ambition, friendship, and self-invention. But when unforeseen upheavals challenge her place in the world she has begun to create, Zippy must decide what kind of woman she wants to become. Vividly evoking the excess, energy, and style of the 1980s, this warm and sharply observed novel explores found family, class, growing up, and the sometimes surprising paths to belonging.

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paperback

Mariner Books

Published May 6, 2025

ISBN: 9780063052352

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