The Story
When Roxanne discovers her absent mothers teenage diary, she finds some painful but important answers to the unsolved questions of her past and possibilities for a different future.For twelveyearold Rox, there are two things in life she can count on: her beloved grandmother, Mimi, and her weekend job at the flea market. But outside this fragile weekend world, shes lost. A soso student with few aspirations for higher education, she feels out of place at school. And who is she anyway? Her teenage mother left when she was only three months old and her fathers identity is a mystery. And no one, least of all Mimi, will talk about what happened.But then her cousin John Martin brings home a girlfriend from college who has very different ideas about the way life works. And when Rox discovers her mothers teenage diary, she begins discovering some answers to her past and her future.With gentle wit and an uncanny sensitivity, author Adrian Fogelin captures the fragility of lifes certainties in this moving novel of an adolescent girls struggles to find her way in the world.
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When Roxanne discovers her absent mothers teenage diary, she finds some painful but important answers to the unsolved questions of her past and possibilities for a different future.For twelveyearold Rox, there are two things in life she can count on: her beloved grandmother, Mimi, and her weekend job at the flea market. But outside this fragile weekend world, shes lost. A soso student with few aspirations for higher education, she feels out of place at school. And who is she anyway? Her teenage mother left when she was only three months old and her fathers identity is a mystery. And no one, least of all Mimi, will talk about what happened.But then her cousin John Martin brings home a girlfriend from college who has very different ideas about the way life works. And when Rox discovers her mothers teenage diary, she begins discovering some answers to her past and her future.With gentle wit and an uncanny sensitivity, author Adrian Fogelin captures the fragility of lifes certainties in this moving novel of an adolescent girls struggles to find her way in the world.
