Grosse Pointe Girl - Softcover
Grosse Pointe Girl is a collection of episodes borrowed from Sarah Grace McCandless' upbringing in one of the most affluent suburbs in the country. Braiding together tales from the frontlines of her adolescence, Grosse Pointe Girl brings readers into her former world, a place both whimsical and awkward, in a city haunted by the dysfunction privilege often brings.
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About the Author:
Sarah Grace McCandless lives in Portland, Oregon and is a marketing director for Dark Horse Comics.
From Booklist:
Set in a wealthy suburb, where yards are "as green as the plastic grass from an Easter basket," McCandless' first novel is a hilarious, spot-on survey of the humiliations and perilous victories of a privileged adolescence. The story follows Emma Harris from her arrival in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, at 13 years of age through high-school graduation. Emma's first-person voice is an utterly convincing blend of self-absorption, detachment, and obsession over intricate social rules; her parent's divorce, for example, is almost a footnote in a chapter about Emma's plot to join the school ski club and win over a guy. Readers who were teens in the 1980s will recognize the cultural references, from the characters' Guess jeans to their Cure cassette tapes. Drawings from comics illustrator Christine Norrie capture the era, although the Archie-style is sometimes at odds with the tone of the words. But McCandless' wickedly funny descriptions and her unerring ear for teen dialogue will appeal to any reader who remembers, or is surviving, the stomach-twisting anxiety of becoming an adult. Gillian Engberg
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- PublisherHEAVY FLOW BOOKS
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1892061104
- ISBN 13 9781892061102
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages68
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