Sit Cinderella Sit

<b>A debut memoir and (sort of) Cinderella story about a woman who'd been told she was too old to create magic who flew to rural China edited a film without speaking a word of Mandarin and discovered her own power. </b> <p/>Lisa Cheek loved editing TV commercials--almost as much as she loved her dog Ron Howard. Then she aged out of advertising at 45. After being let go Lisa got a call--at 2:45 AM--from a director who like everyone in Hollywood had a film he wanted to make: the original Cinderella story. Now his dream could come true--if Lisa granted his wish. <p/>In <i>Sit Cinderella Sit</i> Lisa Cheek shares her adventures in editing a film made on location in China--along the Tibetan border--where Mandarin was the only language spoken by everyone but her. Stuck in a house with fourteen men she couldn't understand literally she yearned for conversation and coffee. <p/>But there were moments of wonder and laughter. Lisa forged a bond with her translator and a woman named Sunny. She rescued one dog and then another. Everyone speaks Cinderella the director had assured her. Maybe he was right. <p/>Told with humor and heart through a fairy tale lens with flashbacks into the author's not-always-happy childhood <i>Sit Cinderella Sit </i>is a story about what can happen when you take a leap of faith look and hear beyond people's differences and dare to believe in yourself.