By Karolee Gillman, Grand Rapids Public Library, Main Branch

In the the world of high fashion, Miranda Priestly is queen. Miranda is the editor of Runway magazine. She expects perfection from everyone, including her newly hired assistant, Andrea Sachs. Andrea wants to be a writer for The New Yorker, but has left her resume at every publishing house. Runway offers Andrea a job “that a million girls would die for”.

The job is actually salaried servitude. Miranda has one demand, often near impossible, after another for Andrea to complete during the day. Andrea pushes friends and family aside as she tries to keep up with those demands. During a trip of a lifetime to Paris Fashion Week, Andrea realizes what is really important in her life, and abruptly quits her job.

The way Andrea quits makes news in the society pages, making her a minor celebrity. Afraid that she has been blacklisted in the publishing industry, Andrea moves back home with her parents, and begins writing short-story fiction. One of these stories is picked up by a national teen magazine, and her career really begins.