Book Blitz | The Pink Dress" A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen
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THE PINK DRESS: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen By Janet Little Botkin Memoir Publisher: She Writes Press Pages: 304 Publication Date: 9/10/24 SYNOPSIS Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didnāt have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protĆ©gĆ© of El Pasoās Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the āKings of Beautyāājust as the 1970ās counterculture movement began to take off. A pink, rose-covered gownāa Guyrex creationāsymbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Janeās time imagined beauty queens had. Its near destruction exposes reality: the authorās failed relationship with her mother, and her parentsā failed relationship with one another. Weaving these narrative threads together is the Wild West notion that anything is possible, especially do-overs. The Pink Dress awakens nostalgia for the 1960s and 1970s, the eraās conflicts and growth pains. A common expectation that ...