num_pages: 300
description: Natalie loves love. Fairy tale endings; rose petals on the bed; a ring at the bottom of a champagne the mythological promises of love that women like Nat come to expect, to want and miss. It's an idea that has gestated for most of Nat's thirty-five years. But having never been surprised with a thousand daisies on her front door, or a proposal written among the clouds, Nat clings to the hope for love, the Possibility. It's this lure of Possibility that inspires her to drive nearly 2,000 miles to surprise her high school sweetheart. She starts out with a singular vision of what love What it looks like, tastes like, acts like -- what it simply must be. But her meticulously planned itinerary is almost immediately thrown off course by a collection of gender-bending characters (and experiences) that continually contradict, challenge, and compromise Nat's firm grasp of What Love Is. Through confessions of others, pasts revealed, and epiphanies about herself, Nat's belief system, her picture of the prize is completely deconstructed, leaving in its wake the terrible realization that Love, as she has believed it should be, is nothing more than a figment of her own imagination; just another Big Girl Lie; as tangible as the image of the Blessed Virgin on a garage door somewhere out in the Valley. "She's the Girl" is a funny tale of a woman who learns the hard way that love is never what it appears to be.
language: English
title: She's the Girl: Part Headtrip. Part Roadtrip. a Gender-Bending Journey on the Road to Ruune
titlecomplete: She's the Girl: Part Headtrip. Part Roadtrip. a Gender-Bending Journey on the Road to Ruune
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Small Dogs Press