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HarperCollins
July 2011
On Sale: June 28, 2011
Featuring: Davie Jones
352 pages ISBN: 0061957852 EAN: 9780061957857 Paperback
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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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