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Amistad
July 2010
On Sale: June 22, 2010
352 pages
ISBN: 0061957844
EAN: 9780061957840
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Fiction Women's Fiction
32 Candles is the slightly twisted, utterly romantic,
and deftly wry story of Davie Jones, who, if she doesn’t
stand in her own way, just might get the man of her dreams. Davie—an ugly duckling growing up in small-town
Mississippi—is positive her life couldn’t be any worse. She
has the meanest mother in the South, possibly the world, and
on top of that, she’s pretty sure she’s ugly. Just when
she’s resigned herself to her fate, she sees a movie that
will change her life—Sixteen Candles. But in her case, life
doesn’t imitate art. Tormented endlessly in school with the
nickname "Monkey Night," and hopelessly in unrequited love
with a handsome football player, James Farrell, Davie finds
that it is bittersweet to dream of Molly Ringwald endings.
When a cruel school prank goes too far, Davie leaves the
life she knows and reinvents herself in the glittery world
of Hollywood—as a beautiful and successful lounge singer in
a swanky nightclub. Davie is finally a million miles from where she
started—until she bumps into her former obsession, James
Farrell. To Davie’s astonishment, James doesn’t recognize
her, and she can’t bring herself to end the fantasy. She
lets him fall as deeply in love with her as she once was
with him. But is life ever that simple? Just as they’re
about to ride off into the sunset, the past comes back with
a vengeance, threatening to crush Davie’s dreams—and break
her heart again. With wholly original characters and a cinematic storyline,
32 Candles introduces Ernessa T. Carter, a new voice in
fiction with smarts, attitude, and sassiness to spare.
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