"Randa， what s wrong with you?""Nothing. I mean， I m a crazy cocaine addict with a hankering for heroin， but other than that， I m just a nice Jewish girl from the Upper East Side with Prada shoes. How could anything be wrong?" Molly Jong-Fast s Normal Girl is striking-and as funny as it as real. Inspired by her own experiences growing up in the decadent， fast-paced netherworld of New York City s jet set， Jong-Fast s debut novel is a hilarious， hard-edged walk past the velvet rope.At just nineteen， Miranda Woke seems to have it all. Her parents are famous socialites， she s already been written up on Page Six sixteen times， she s on all the right invitation lists， and drugs and alcohol are never in short supply. But while her image screams "It girl，" she d rather be a normal girl， and the A-list feels even more uncomfortable than her Manolo Blahnik shoes. In fact， she s become the "living embodiment of an awkward phase" with "more issues than Harper s Bazaar." Neither Xanax nor Deepak Chopra tapes help. And now that her junkie party has trashed her parents house， she has to liquidate her trust fund to pay Mom s decorator for a quick fix. But worst of all， Miranda thinks she just murdered her own boyfriend.In an all-too-glamorous world where the cell phone is always ringing， Miranda sees no escape other than a downward spiral of cocaine， Valium， and heroin. It takes friends who offer more than air kisses to force Miranda to look in the mirror and get some help.