Her tentative reconciliation with Kate, followed by another blow-up, also rings true. Lissa slowly reveals the details of exactly what happened that night with Kate, as if building the courage to think about them. Ariel helps Lissa feel more comfortable in her own skin, a process reinforced by Lissa's experiments with lucid dreaming and by helping her sister deal with an overly precocious friend. Through her weekend job delivering for Entrées on Trays, Lissa gets to know a burgundy-haired, nose-ring-wearing free-spirited classmate who calls herself Ariel ("my spiritual name"). Lissa, who has lived with her little sister and bachelor uncle since her parents' death years ago, feels different from other girls: she drives a truck, shuns eyeliner-and kissed her best friend at a party. Myracle's promising but uneven first novel introduces a misfit teen struggling with her sexuality.
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