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amazing first novel, written by a 22 year old, is the record
of a teenage girl who embraces death as a viable alternative
to adulthood.
Stella Parrish is smart, attractive, and deeply alienated.
She is not nihilistic; rather prematurely exhausted. Since her
parents OD'd at a cocaine party when she was eleven, she has
lived with well meaning but inexperienced foster parents. We
attend with her the last two weeks at a high school in Orange
County California: the absurdly intensive AP final exams, the
childish field trips, the totemic importance attached to graduation.
Beneath Stella's funny deadpan take on her life is the decisiveness
with which she disengages from it, planting clues and providing
explanations for those who will try to understand what she's
done.
With perfect pitch, remarkable wit and a spare, vivid
prose, Stella turns her farewell to suburbia into a remarkably
wry philosophical inquiry.
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