Kate Hollis's ex-boyfriend's face plasters newsstands and TV, the
Internet, and the multiplex. Jake Sharpe is one of the biggest recording
stars on the planet, and every song he's famous for is about Kate. For
over a decade his soundtrack has chased her--from the gym to the
supermarket, from the dentist's office to the bars. Now thirty-year-old
Kate gets the call that Jake has finally landed back in their Vermont
hometown for an MTV special. The moment she has been waiting for has
arrived.
On the eve of their prom, Jake Sharpe vanished, resurfacing when his
song "Losing"--about his and Kate's first sexual experience--shot to the
top of the Billboard charts. And the hits kept coming, each more
personal than the one before.
Now Kate gets her chance to confront Jake and reclaim her past. But
after eleven years of enduring protracted and far-from-private
heartbreak, everyone in Kate's life has a stake in how this plays out.
Kate must risk betraying the friends Jake abandoned, the band-mates
whose songs he plundered, and her own parents, who fear this will dredge
up a shared past more painful than any of them want to acknowledge. But
after getting the call in the dead of night and jumping on a plane, can
she turn back now?
Newsweek dubbed The Nanny Diaries "a national phenomenon" and the
New Republic proclaimed, "Thank God for Citizen Girl." Now
McLaughlin and Kraus have written a poignant, humorous tale about modern
celebrity obsession and coming of age during the divorce boom. With
flawless depictions of the 1980s, a charismatic heroine, and their
signature biting wit, the authors offer up another lively and hilarious
tale of a smart young woman looking for satisfaction in the chaos of
contemporary culture.
