A young woman caught at the turning point between success and failure hopes fame and fortune will finally let her leave her old life--and her old self--behind

Birdie Baker has always dreamed of becoming someone else. At twenty-two, she sets off to do just that. Walking out on her pastor husband and deeply evangelical parents, she leaves behind her small-town, small-time life and gets on a bus to Los Angeles.

Nine years later, Birdie's life in Hollywood is far from golden, and nothing in the intervening years--the brutal auditions, the tawdry commercials--has brought her...