Her Perfect Life
Is a Perfect Lie
Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: a glamorous job at a glossy magazine, an enviable figure with the wardrobe to match, and a handsome fiancé from a distinguished blue-blood family. But Ani FaNelli is an invention, that veneer of perfection carefully assembled in an attempt to distance herself from a shocking, sordid past.
As her wedding draws near, a documentary producer invites Ani to speak about the chilling incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School. Determined once and for all to silence the whispers of suspicion and blame, Ani must weigh her options carefully, when telling the whole truth could destroy the picture-perfect life she’s worked so hard to create.
With a singular voice and a twist you won’t see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the deep-seated desire to fit in and the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all”. Ani FaNelli is a complex and vulnerable heroine – one whose sharp edges protect a truth that will move, scandalize, and surprise you.
Mind-Blowing! “Luckiest Girl Alive” is Jessica Knoll’s début novel, which was released on May 12th, and Lionsgate has already secured the rights for a movie-adaption. While I am sure that the story will make a great movie, the book itself and I have had sort of a love-hate-relationship…
It Does Get Better Throughout the first half of Luckiest Girl Alive, I kept thinking to myself, why am I reading this? Ani is a self indulged, miserable woman seemingly engaged to the perfect, wealthy man who she doesn’t love and when she walks down memory lane, there is nothing, nothing, good there either. Ani, formerly TifAni, likes to do everything right in the upper crust society of New York. Details matter or someone may guess she is a phony who actually had to claw and fight her way to fit in to the role of…
Brilliant, devastating, real — a gripping read Jessica Knoll’s LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE reads like a mash-up of Curtis Sittenfeld’s PREP and anything by Gillian Flynn. Twenty-eight-year-old narrator Ani FaNelli is living what she thinks is the perfect life – “cool job, impressive zip code, hungry body, and the kicker – dreamboat fiancé.” But from the first page, when she imagines plunging a steel blade into husband-to-be Luke Harrison, it’s clear that whatever she exhibits to the world around her, something inside Ani is dark and broken…