Chore Whore:
Adventures of a Celebrity Personal Assistant
Certain passages from Heather Howard's Chore Whore: Adventures
of a Celebrity Personal Assistant lead one to believe
that the author was trying to write a humorous public
service announcement about the horrors (not whores) of
becoming a personal assistant. Corki Brown, a long-suffering
single mom with a handful of famously hard-to-please bosses,
navigates a crazy world of gun-toting movie stars, Atkins
diets, and hard-to-find toilet seats, all for less money
than she really deserves. Howard apparently had a lengthy
career as an assistant herself, so that toilet seat story
would very well be based in reality.
With terrifying tales like this lining bookstore shelves,
it's a wonder the real rich and famous can still hail
cabs, let alone find people desperate enough to wait on
them full time. The title Chore Whore might suggest that
Howard would consider turning a critical eye towards those
willing to take humiliating, low-paying work for the privilege
of being close to celebrity.
Say the type of person who looks at these positions not
as regular jobs, but as literary internships to a career
writing Chick Lit. No such luck, of course. The sins are
all the side of fictional celebrities. (Don't worry--no
actual famous people's reputations were harmed in the
publishing of this book.) Howard is fine as writer; she
makes the pages turn. One only wonders if books from this
tell-all-style, assistant-fiction genre will hold up as
well as some of the films made by the celebrities they
criticize. --Leah Weathersby --This text refers to an
out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
