The pink jumper was glowing in my grey bedroom like a tiny bit of Dorothy's Oz in boring black-and-white Kansas. Pink was for girls. Ava Simpson is trying on a whole new image. Stripping the black dye from her hair, leaving her uber-cool girlfriend, Chloe, behind. Ava is quickly taken under the wing of perky, popular Alexis who insists a) she's a perfect match for handsome Ethan; and b) she absolutely must audition for the school musical. But while she's busy trying to fit in - with Chloe, with Alexis and her Pastel friends, even with the misfits in the stage crew - Ava fails to notice that her shiny reinvented life is far more fragile than she imagined.
Publication Year: 2011
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0Clueless from Ty's perspective, PINK was a thoroughly entertaining "find yourself" teenage story. The adults portrayed are a little extreme (Ava's parents "Pat and Dave" vs. Sam's ice-queen mom), and as a straight person I can't really comment on the orientation questions, but the sheer who-do-I-like-who-am-I-what-do-I-want-to-be-when-I-grow-up maelstrom that is adolescence was very relateable and well written.
0This is coming out from Harper next year -- and it's excellent.
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