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266 pp.
| Holt |
June, 2005 |
TradeISBN 0-8050-7667-0$16.95
(3)
YA
Seventeen-year-old high school student Zoe gathers her courage to move out of her alcoholic mother's house. She finds temporary refuge in a rented room on Lorelei Street. Subsisting on tips from her diner job, a desperate act causes Zoe to again reevaluate her situation. Pearson's third-person narration perfectly fits the tone of a girl who keeps others at arm's length.