ASIN: B00BTJRK4A
Publisher: Ciara Threadgoode
Pages: 191
Four teenaged girls become friends and allies, providing believable alibis for each other that get them out of the house; away from distracted and indifferent parents; parents struggling to live their lives in an unnatural way; lives that include children, which was never what they wanted. They had caved; under pressure from families under the spell of a changing culture still geared to traditional protocol; i.e., doing what's right. For them, personal preference or comfort never really got into the equation.The girls are who they are: one is of mixed blood, one favors high drama; another is very amply endowed; yet another is the acute fashionista. And Cali is demurely pretty, the product of an unwanted pregnancy. Her parents are both in the picture but the picture is sterile and cold. She wishes she'd been born instead to Dr. and Mrs. Seuss. Trinity is the one who reads volumes, in ...
