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Author Bleidner, Via, author.

Title If you lived here you'd be famous by now : true stories from Calabasas / Via Bleidner.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2021.

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-BLEIDNER BLE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 294 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Abstinence and Adderall -- Kim Kardashian stole my salad -- On feeling like a plastic bag -- Please don't eat the oranges -- Stalling for Cub -- Internet Safety -- The $18 million sandbox -- The One Direction essay -- Depth of field -- Instant gratification -- Jizzbag -- I can't hang -- The big fuck you -- Valley girls -- Lipvirgin in a new dress.
Summary "If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now is an insider's collection of funny and warmhearted stories about coming of age in the Los Angeles suburb famed for birthing the Kardashian-Jenners and the Bling Ring. For Via Bleidner, transferring to Calabasas High from the private Catholic school she's attended since second grade is a culture shock, not to mention absolutely lonely. Suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar world of celebrities, affluenza, and McMansions, Via takes a page from Cameron Crowe and pretends she's on a journalism assignment, taking notes on her classmates and jotting down bits of overheard gossip. Getting through high school in Calabasas is something else-from Kim Kardashian endorsing the students' favorite hidden lunch spot, to the theater program hiring a famous dog to play Elle Wood's Chihuahua in its production of Legally Blonde, and Kanye trying to take control of your school to make it the very first YEEZY institution. But instead of floating through high school detached from her peers, Via finds that putting herself out there-for her writing, of course-just might have been exactly what she needed. She unexpectedly finds an eclectic group of friends to call her own, including a multi-multi-millionaire, a wild-card throwback intent on going viral, a former Disney actor, and a doughnut-dealing madman. With wit, candor, and sharp observations, twenty-one-year-old Via grounds the surreal glamour of Calabasas with reflections on her own coming-of-age, sharing her teenage misadventures as she struggles to fit in, faces crushing social pressure, and eventually makes her own way"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Bleidner, Via -- Childhood and youth.
Calabasas (Calif.) -- Biography.
Calabasas (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
High school students -- California -- Calabasas -- Biography.
Calabasas (Calif.) -- Anecdotes.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
High school students. (OCoLC)fst00956174
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
California -- Calabasas. (OCoLC)fst01256786
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Added Title If you lived here you would be famous by now
ISBN 9781250753939 (hardcover)
1250753937 (hardcover)
9781250753922 (ebook)
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