This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. - Format: Paperback
- Author: Donna Patrick
- ISBN10: 1980430489
- ISBN13: 9781980430483
In the Spring of 1974, Celia Mahaffey has high school all figured out. A place on the Cheerleading Squad. Popular friends. A great boyfriend. She is convinced all these things will set her up for a successful future, the kind of future her mother never considered. That is, until she witnesses a blow-up between her younger sister Marie and their mother, followed by an unusual exchange between Marie and their neighbor Betsy. Celia begins to suspect Maries increasingly bizarre behavior is somehow connected to an inappropriate relationship with Betsy, but shes unable to make any sense of it, or help her parents get a handle on it. With the tension at home rising, Celias boyfriend pressuring her for more intimacy in this, his senior year, and then a good friend of Celias revealing a shocking secret, Celia is trying hard to hold it all together. High school was supposed to be the best time of her life, but as a junior with another year to go, she is beginning to understand that when school ends shell be saying goodbye to many of the people she loves as they all go off to college. It sucks to be the person left behind. What she doesnt know is that before the school year ends, shell be losing her sister Marie, any semblance of a normal family, her relationships with the people she once called friends, and even her boyfriend John. Everything around her begins to spin out of her control. She wonders if life will ever be normal again.its enough to make any teenager go off the deep end, and Celia is no exception.
