Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair: A Novel

By: June Gervais

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Synopsis: &“I adored this novel. It&’s a story about being an awkward, misfit girl with big dreams in a man&’s world. It made me laugh out loud, and it made me really, really want a tattoo.&” —Clare Pooley, New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project An uplifting, feminist coming-of-age love story about a young woman who dreams of becoming a tattoo artist, and living life on her own termsIntrovert Gina Mulley is determined to become a tattoo artist, and to find somewhere she belongs in her conventional Long Island town. But this is 1985, when tattooing is still a gritty, male-dominated fringe culture, and Gina&’s funky flash is not exactly mainstream tattoo fare. The good news is that her older brother Dominic owns a tattoo shop, and he reluctantly agrees to train her. Gina has a year to prove herself, but her world is turned upside down when a mysterious psychic and his striking assistant, Anna, arrive on the scene. With Anna&’s help, Gina recognizes that the only way she has a shot at becoming a professional tattoo artist is to embrace her quirkiness both in her art and her life. The tattoo shop is rocked by a crisis just as Gina finds herself falling in love with Anna. Dominic gives Gina an ultimatum, and she&’s faced with an impossible choice: Is the romance and newfound independence she&’s found worth sacrificing her dreams? Or can she find a way to have it all?

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