Oh! You pretty things

the long version

"Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she's got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she's a dead girl walking. Enter Jess's mother--a failed actress who puts the strange in estrangement. She dives headlong into her daughter's downward spiral, forcing Jess to muster all her spite and self-preservation to snag a career upgrade: as a personal assistant for a famous (and secretly agoraphobic) film composer, Jesss workdays are now filled with shopping for luxury goods and cooking in his perfectly designed kitchen"--dust jacket.