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A teens world comes crashing down in this compulsively readable YA debut thats as literary as it is commercial. Gabby Gardiner wakes up in a hospital bed looking like a cautionary ad for drunk drivingand without a single memory of the accident that landed her there. But what she can recall, in frank and sardonic detail, is the year leading up to the crash. As Gabby describes her transformation from Invisible Girl to Trendy Girl Who Dates Billy Nash aka Most Desirable Boy Ever, she is left wondering Why is Billy suddenly distancing himself from her What do her classmates know that Gabby does not Who exactly was in the car that night And why has Gabby been left to take the fall As she peels back the layers of her life, Gabby begins to realize that her climb up the status ladder has been as intoxicating as it has been morally complex.
About the Author
Ann Stampler was the mild mannered author of literary picture books when she broke out, tore off her tasteful string of pearls, and started writing edgy, contemporary young adult novels set in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and writer's-helper rescue dog - without whose compelling distraction she would have no doubt penned dozens of novels by now.
You can find Ann at http://www.annstampler.com, where she chats about life in general, and at Novel In The Oven, where she offers Really Bad Writing Advice. (Seriously, it's rank.)
If you'd like to check out the first few chapters of her novels, go here for Afterparty (Simon Pulse, 2014) http://www.scribd.com/doc/183272047/Afterparty-by-Ann-Redisch-Stampler-Excerpt
and here for Where It Began (Simon Pulse, 2012) here: http://pages.simonandschuster.com/annstampler
