From Booklist When Betty Winters loses her first postcollege job， she decides to beat the doldrums by trying life as a ski bum. Her temporary experiment becomes permanent when she falls in love with a sexy ski instructor， but life isn't exactly paradise in Jackson Hole. Between dealing with Jack's crazy estranged wife and dodging her parents' barbed comments about her life plans， Betty is exhausted before she even gets through a long day working two jobs. It doesn't help that Jack is spending an inordinate amount of time giving lessons to a cute ski bunny and hanging out with his druggie friends. When her mother becomes seriously ill， Betty heads home to help out and take stock. Money struggles， health problems， infidelity--McCouch broaches serious topics but does it with a sense of humor， accurately capturing the emotions of someone struggling to find her place in life. This is a great read for recent grads or anyone looking for fiction about the lighter side of growing up. Aleksandra KostovskiCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Book Description Who would have thought that the glamour of working the slopes as a ski instructor would turn out to be just another snow job?After finishing college， joining the labor force， and unceremoniously getting canned， Betty Winters does what any self-respecting postgrad with an expensive liberal arts education would do: she defies her wealthy Connecticut parents and goes west to ski-bum around the Tetons. But after a year of the rambler’s life， Betty feels her enthusiasm beginning to wane. There’s nothing she loves more than the Jackson Hole vistas， the soft murmur of fresh powder， and the sheer pleasure of conquering a killer bump run. Plus she’s pretty partial to her hunky boyfriend， Jack. What she’s coming to hate， though， is the wake-and-bake ritual of their pot-filled mornings， the measly wages from her double shifts instructing on the slopes and moonlighting as a cocktail waitress at the Mangy Moose， and the feeling that for Jack， ski-bumming isn’t just a phase. And then there’s Jack’s wife， Muriel. . . .When tryouts are announced for a famous extreme-ski video series， Betty decides to enter: perhaps getting paid to ski the world is her calling. But all the training in the world can’t prepare her for what follows. . . . See all Editorial Reviews