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Plot Summary of The Broke Diaries
"A broke college student, Angela passes the time writing online entries about her misadventures of college life. With little money and credit card debts she ends up often hilarious situations. Whether ducking bill collectors, scamming for free textbooks or getting kicked out of a Wal-Mart Angela handles everything with grace and a strong sense of humor."
Alma R. Zeno, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Kids: - trouble in college
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Kind of living: - general poverty story

Subject of Biography
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity - Black
How sensitive is this person? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 2 ()
United States Yes
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Is book humorous? Yes
If humorous, kind of humor - eccentric personalities - Dry-cynical - sarcastic/sardonic
Unusual Style: - a lot of play on words
Story of entire life, or part? - story of set of events during life
Pictures/Illustrations? - A few 1-5 B&W
How much dialogue in bio? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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