Grosse Pointe Girl: Tales from a Suburban Adolescence

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Welcome to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where social rank is determined by the age of your money and the dryness of your martini.
The new girl in town, Emma Harris, must prove herself hip to the rigid rules of adolescent conformity. The quest for cool, she discovers, is one long final exam. To pass she must be cruel to be kind (ditching her best friend for the popular crowd), dress to impress (trading her favorite Esprit shirt for three plastic bracelets), and master the art of seduction (puckering up with Mulberry Stain or Peaches 'n' Cream lip gloss). Life is all about making choices -- the right ones.
Will Emma's social acrobatics put her on the short list for that coveted country club membership Will the digits of her zip code pass muster If her parents split up, will the gossip help or hurt her in the rankings Grosse Pointe Girl serves as an indispensable road map through the dysfunction privilege brings. So put on your Guess jeans and your jelly shoes and come along for the ride to the adolescent days that time forgot, but you never will.

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Pam Houston author of Cowboys Are My Weakness Sarah Grace McCandless writes with humor and compassion and honesty about the most embarrassing time in all our lives, those terrible years between the first crush and the first orgasm. No matter which side of the tracks you come from, Grosse Pointe Girl will hit you where you live.
Joe Weisberg author of 10th Grade (an Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book) Sarah Grace McCandless is a flat-out fantastic writer. Among her many gifts is an ability to combine laugh-out-loud humor with an unaffected, devastating sadness. The result is absolute magic -- the strange, beautiful truth about childhood revealed.

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Sarah Grace McCandless is the author of Grosse Pointe Girl. She lives in Washington, D.C. Visit her on the web at www.sarahdisgrace.com.