Today I am pleased to bring you the story of Ava and her inner turmoil.
Ava is from a super liberal family; she calls her parents by their first names and when she declared herself a lesbian, her parents literally broke out the champagne. Ava has a girlfriend, dyes her hair a deep black, and wears very little color.
But Ava has a secret: she longs to be a girl who wears pink. She loves the color. She also loves skirts and dresses and kitten heels, she just doesn't feel that she can get away with wearing those things. In order to get a fresh start, she transfers to a private school and, on the first day, wears a pair of fitted jeans and a new pink, cashmere, argyle sweater that she just adores.
Even though she's struggling a bit with the new, heavy course load, she feels that she's off to a great start. She's fallen in with a good crowd who conspire to hook her up with a boy named Ethan (Ava thinks she might like boys as well, so she's totally ok with this).
Things start to get dicey, though, when she auditions for (and completely makes a fool of herself while doing it) the school musical. She ends up signing up to work with the stage crew, or Screw, as they call themselves, which Ava's new cool friends think is just awful. At this point, you get to see how very confused Ava is about a lot of things in her life.
This book is relatively new to our collection, but I think it will be one that sticks around for a while. It was great!
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