Combining the honesty, warmth, and humor of Queenie and a modern-day Bridget Joness Diary, this entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel from award-winning writer Breanne Mc Ivor follows a young Trinidadian woman finding her voice and a new kind of happy ending."e;Phenomenal! A book worthy of a standing ovation. I will never forget how this novel mademe feel. It's effortlessly beautiful."e;Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, author of Yinka, Where is your Huzband?Bianca Bridge has always dreamt of becoming a writer. But Trinidadian society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married government official is a sure-fire way to ruin your prospects. So when Obadiah Cortland, a notoriously tyrannical entrepreneur in the islands beauty scene, offers her a job, Bianca accepts, realizing that working on his magazine is the closest to her dreams shell get.As Bianca begins to embrace her power and creative voice, she starts to suspect Obadiah is not the elite tyrant he seems. Shes right. Born in one of the poorest parts of Trinidad, Obadiah has clawed partway up societys ladder and built his company around his meticulously crafted persona. Now, hes not about to let anyone, especially Bianca, see past his faade.When Biancas ex-lover threatens everything shes rebuilt, jeopardizing all shes come to love about her new life, shes surprised to find support from the most unlikely ally and, finally, draws the strength to fight back like her mother taught her.Sharp-witted and fiercely fun, The God of Good Looks alternates between Biancas diary entries and Obadiahs first-person narrative to portray modern Trinidads rigid class barriers and the fraught impact of beauty commodification in a patriarchal society. Boisterous, moving, and full of meaty, universally relatable questions, Mc Ivors sparkling debut is an open-hearted, awakening tale about prejudice and pride, the masks we wear, and what we can become if we dare to take them off.
