Pretties Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2004) or just fed up with

or just fed up with your family members telling you to fetch a husband because time is running out

Jess's home life is overshadowed by violence

These creatives are founding their own small companies all over the world--storefronts and other locations with a uniquely individual character that often serve simultaneously as an office

Tsukiyama paints a portrait of women fighting the forces of war and time to make a life for themselves

Pretties Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2004) or just fed up withGorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong. Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted. But beneath all the fun the nonstop parties, the high tech luxury, the total freedom is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers