Description: Flannery Culp, a world-weary high school senior, is primed to take on the few remaining obstacles that stand between her and the rest of her life. If only things hadn't gotten out of control and she had stayed away from the absinthe, then she wouldn't be a topic on daytime talk shows or incarcerated.
Brief description:
Daniel Handler has written three novels under his own name, including The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, and Adverbs, and many books under the name Lemony Snicket, including All the Wrong Questions, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the picture book 13 Words.
Review Quotes:
"Sharply observed, mischievous. . . . Handler's confident satire is not only cheeky but packed with downright lovable characters whose youthful misadventures keep the novel neatly balanced between absurdity and poignancy." - Publishers Weekly
A delicious entertainment and an unsettling statement on the irrationality of adolescence." - Time Out New York
"A book that creeps up on you. . . . it gets funner and funner as it goes along, like an inside joke that's all the better for taking awhile to figure out." - San Francisco Chronicle