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The Girl I Wanted to Be: A Novel
The Girl I Wanted to Be: A Novel
The Girl I Wanted to Be: A Novel
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The Girl I Wanted to Be: A Novel

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As a lowly freshman named for "The King," Presley Moran walks high school corridors paved with the stuff of family legend. Her cousin Barry, a senior heartthrob and brainy varsity letterman, insists that looking good on paper is the key to success. But Presley's young aunt Betsi, a former homecoming queen, has her own ideas about good looks and how to use them.

"Can you keep a secret?" Betsi asks Presley, who, at age fourteen, is eager for entrée into the adult world of beauty, attraction, and romance. But as Presley is about to discover, some secrets should never be revealed. Will the illicit thrill of being a trusted confidante, privy to the details of muddled entanglements and incompatible desires, be worth the consequences of guilt by association?

Propelled by the crash of falling idols, The Girl I Wanted to Be is a timeless and true portrait of passion, loss, and hard-won wisdom.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 2, 2006
ISBN9780743293242
The Girl I Wanted to Be: A Novel
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Sarah Grace McCandless

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.

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    Presley’s relationship with her mother’s young sister, Betsi, could be better described as “friend” than as “aunt”. The fourteen-yearoldhad always admired Betsi as the “girl she wanted to be” and eagerly accepts her advice on everything from clothes toboyfriends. However, Betsi has substance abuse problems and this warrants her to live with Presley’s family until she canstraighten-out her life. Presley gradually begins to loose her veneration for Betsi as she sees her flaws and learns of a disturbingsecret which Betsi hides from the family. This is a poignant story of an adolescent girl who learns to believe in who she is and totrust her instincts of right and wrong.

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