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How do you live your life if your past is based on a lie? A new novel in both verse and prose from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ellen Hopkins.. For as long as she can remember, its been just Ariel and Dad. Ariels mom disappeared when she was a baby. Dad says home is wherever the two of them are, but Ariel is now seventeen and after years of new apartments, new schools, and new faces, all she wants is to put down some roots. Complicating things are Monica and Gabe, both of whom have stirred a different kind of desire. Mayas a teenager whos run from an abusive mother right into the arms of an older man she thinks she can trust. But now shes isolated with a baby on the way, and lifes getting more complicated than Maya ever could have imagined. Ariel and Mayas lives collide unexpectedly when Ariels mother shows up out of the blue with wild accusations: Ariel wasnt abandoned. Her father kidnapped her fourteen years ago. What is Ariel supposed to believe? Is it possible Dads woven her entire history into a tapestry of lies? How can she choose between the mother shes been taught to mistrust and the father who has taken care of her all these years? In bestselling author Ellen Hopkinss deft hands, Ariels emotionally charged journey to find out the truth of who she really is balances beautifully with Mayas story of loss and redemption. This is a memorable portrait of two young women trying to make sense of their lives and coming face to face with themselves - for both the last and the very first time.
About the Author
I was adopted at birth and raised by a great, loving older couple. I grew up in Palm Springs CA, although we summered in Napa and Lake Tahoe, to avoid those 120 degree summers. After my adopted parents died, I did find my birth mother, who lives in Michigan with my half sister. I studied journalism in college, but left school to marry, raise kids and start my own business--a video store, before the mega-chains were out there. After a divorce, I met my current husband and we moved to Tahoe to become ski bums and otherwise try to find our dreams. At that time, I went to work for a small alternative press, writing stories and eventually editing.When we moved down the mountain to the Reno area, I started writing nonfiction books, many of which you can see here. The rest are viewable on my personal website. I also continued to freelance articles for newspapers and magazines.All that has changed, with the publication of my novel, CRANK, which has led to a valued career writing YA novels in verse, all of which explore the more difficult situations young adults often find themselves in. Will I ever write one in prose? No doubt! But, for the moment, writing novels in verse fulfills two needs: writing poetry and writing fiction. The combination is so interesting!