Sissy does a bit of modeling for the Countess, and becomes one of the stars of his new marketing campaign, making a small name for herself in the commercial modeling industry. The Countess, a tycoon in the feminine hygiene industry, is entranced by Sissy and her thumbs. Sissy's travels take her to New York City, where she falls in with a gay billionaire executive called The Countess. Sissy also meets an escapee from a Japanese internment camp, whom people have mistakenly called “The Chink,” and who is presented by Robbins as a kind of mystical figure, who writes profound aphorisms on cave walls and laughs with strange intonations. In her travels, Sissy meets many strange characters, including a cowgirl named Bonanza Jellybean who prides herself on her open sexuality. Therefore, Sissy sets out on a hitchhiking adventure, choosing to use her abnormal thumbs to get the attention of drivers on highways across America. Sissy's thumbs grow larger as she does the larger her thumbs grow, the more Sissy feels a strong desire to use them for some larger, more cosmic purpose. Sissy sees her thumbs as a unique characteristic that set her apart from the people in her small town, going so far as to say that her thumbs make her the vibrant, free-spirited person she is. Everyone in Sissy's life, it seems, is obsessed with her thumbs, except for Sissy herself. They worry that though Sissy is otherwise quite beautiful and pleasant, her thumbs make her a freak, and she has been dealt an unfair hand because of the mutation. Her thumbs are so abnormally large that her parents and friends feel sorry for her. The story begins in South Richmond, Virginia, where Sissy begins her life as something of a small-town spectacle. The novel, clearly inspired by the hippy movement of the 1960s and 1970s, demonstrates Robbins's appreciation for the absurdity and kindness of characters of all shapes, sizes, and temperaments.
Along the way, Sissy meets other strange characters and comes to better love herself. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a humorous novel by acclaimed bestselling author Tom Robbins, follows the journey of Sissy Hankshaw, a free-spirited, beautiful young woman with abnormally large thumbs, who seeks to make the most of her mutation by hitchhiking across America.
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