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Dredging up the past can knock the present right off balance.The world expects perfection from seventeen-year-old Shawna Gallagher, and for the most part, that’s what they get. She dates the right boys, gets good grades, and follows her father’s every rule. But when her estranged lesbian mother dies, it’s more than perfect Shawna can take. Suddenly, anger from being abandoned ten years ago is resurfacing along with Shawna’s embarrassment over her mother’s other family. As she confronts family secrets and questions from the past, Shawna realizes there’s a difference between doing the perfect thing and doing the right thing. Shawna’s honest and relatable voice will draw readers in and hold them until the last page in this coming-of-age story.
About the Author
Jeannine Garsee's third novel for teens, THE UNQUIET--a paranormal--will be released by Bloomsbury USA Children's Books on July 17, 2012. She is also the author of SAY THE WORD and BEFORE, AFTER, AND SOMEBODY IN BETWEEN. Her essay "Fearless," a personal account of a middle school bullying experience, appears in DEAR BULLY: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories (Harper Collins 2011)
Jeannine works as a psychiatric nurse in Cleveland, Ohio.
