This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record

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When the school year at tony Nashville Arts and Science ends, Vaughn Vance ditches her upper class friends for a summer of solitude. Content to be alone and work on her photography, Vaughns seclusion is disrupted when she meets her new neighbor, Sophie Birch. The two form a tentative friendship, hanging out at Dragon Park with the rest of Nashvilles teens. There, the relationship deepens: Sophie becomes the subject of Vaughns artistic experiments and Vaughn becomes the subject of Sophies socialexperimentation as she pushes Vaughn to loosen up and let down her guard. After a fight with her mother, Sophie moves in with Vaughn and her academic parents who embrace Sophies wild side until the girls push each other a step too far. In her debut novel, Susannah Felts perfectly capturesthe feel of growing upSouthern-style, the universal push-pull of adolescent limit testing, and, above all, the intoxicating power that comes with burgeoning creativity.