A Hundred Other Girls

For fans of The Devil Wears Prada and The Bold Type comes a smart,modern story about the shifting media landscape and one Middle Eastern–American writer finding her place in it. How far would you go to keep the job a hundred other girls are ready to take? Noora’s life is a little off track. She’s an aspiring writer and amateur blogger in New York–which is a nice way of saying that she tutors rich Upper East Side kids and is currently crashing on her sister’s couch. But that’s okay. Noora has Leilawho has always been her rockand now she has another major influence to lean on: Vinyl magazine. The pages of Vinyl practically raised Noorateaching her everything from how to properly insert a tampon to which political ideology she subscribes to. So when she lands a highly coveted job as assistant to Loretta JamesVinyl’s iconic editor-in-chiefNoora can’t believe her luck. Her only dream is to write for Vinyland now with her foot firmly in the door and the Loretta James as her mentorNoora is finally on the right path… or so she thinks. Loretta is an unhinged nightmareinsecure and desperate to remain relevant in an evolving media landscape she doesn’t understand. Noora’s phone buzzes constantly with Loretta’s bizarre demandsparticularly with tasks Loretta hopes will undermine the success of Vinyl’s wunderkind digital director Jade Aki. The reality of Noora’s job is nothing like she expectedand a misguided crush on the hot IT guy only threatens to complicate things even more. But as Loretta and the old-school print team enter into a turf war with Jade and the woke-for-the-wrong-reasons digital teamNoora soon finds herself caught in the middle. And with her dream job on the lineshe’ll need to either choose a side or form her own. Cleverincisiveand thoroughly funA Hundred Other Girls is an insider’s take on the changing media industryan ode to sisterhoodand a profound exploration of what it means to chase your dreams.