snatched from Brooklyn obscurity and hurtled into the world of supermodels and fashionista wannabees. The story of their adventures is at first narrated by their brother Philip, who declares himself “the invisible member of the family.” Amelia, the youngest of the siblings at just fourteen, tries to extricate herself from the parties and the runway shows and the fashion shoots, with disastrous results—she gets into a tussle with a major movie star (whom they nickname Rex Wentworth) during which she bites the guy. A media frenzy ensues—It Girl Bites Movie Star—and the girls have to apologize to “Rex” on the Regis and Kelly show. At which point Philip gets tossed out of the house by his own mother, who decides that perhaps Amelia’s poor behavior has been encouraged by her big brother.

After Philip is sent off to live with his estranged father, Amelia picks up the narrative and describes how she becomes even more of a media sensation, more or less against her own devices. When she gets offered a part in an off-Broadway play her transformation into a Lindsay Lohan-like superstar is complete. At which point she finds herself and her sisters at a gala at the Whitney, where the photographer who took the New Yorker shot is having a retrospective. There, Amelia finds Philip, who is a wreck, a lonely and lost shadow of his former self.

While Amelia reunites with her brother and tries to figure out how to take him home, Polly picks up the narrative. Thinking fast, she sneaks them out of the Whitney and down to the lower east side, where a nutty hairdresser who has befriended them takes them in. Polly, at eighteen, realizes that maybe somebody needs to keep an eye on Amelia, that maybe being a culture superstar isn’t the healthiest thing for a fifteen year old girl. But while Polly is starting to grow the shreds of a conscience, Amelia is starting to enjoy her stardom. Rex Wentworth reappears in their lives, offering the kid a big part in a major motion picture, and things start to spin out of control. The story reaches its climax when Polly and Daria, fresh off a shoot for GQ (where they model platinum and diamond-encrusted underwear) realize that Amelia has been steered by their own mother into a dangerous, Roman Polanski-esque liason with the sinister Rex. Daria---whose ferocious yearning to