Lancaster - Bitter is the new black: confessions of a condescending, egomaniacal, self-centered, smart-ass, or, why you should never carry a Prada bag to the unemployment office: a memoir

Confessions of a condescending,
egomaniacal, self-centered
Smart-ass, or why you
should never carry a Prada Bag
to the unemployment office

A MEMOIR

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Copyright Jen Lancaster, 2006
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Lancaster, Jen, 1967
Bitter is the new black / Jen Lancaster.
p. cm.
ISBN: 1-101-12840-2
1. Unemployed women workersNonfiction. 2. Job huntingNonfiction. I. Title.
PS3612.A54748B58 2006
813'.6dc22 2005018193

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for my mom despite and because (but mostly because)

for kate who makes the impossible anything but

for auntie virginia and cousin stephen,
my style icon and the man who invented fun

and for fletchthanks for doing all the
heavy lifting (with love and squalor)