Uncommon Strange
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ISBN10: 1508877378
ISBN13: 9781508877370
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 14 2015
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781508877370
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 14 2015
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
There's strange and then there's fall-down-the-rabbit-hole, see-it-but-don't-believe-it, couldn't-happen-in-a-million-years strange. The difference between the two is what makes some stories worth telling. Sixteen-year-old Jackie Sherman is the underachieving youngest member of her unusual and accomplished family. Normal for Jackie is living with two moms, a dad, and an older sister who is the smartest and most popular girl in their high school. But her plan to slip through life unnoticed comes undone after puberty gives Jackie a body by Botticelli and when Brie and Troy Tyler, a brother and sister dance team she used to compete against, move in next door. Now instead of wearing grunge and hanging out in the computer lab, there's dancing, romance, formal attire, competitions, premiers, travel, awards, and notoriety. Uncommon Strange is a one-of-a-kind coming of age story. Love, longing, laughter, tears, confusion, heartache, loss, and triumph-all the usual themes are there. So is ballroom dancing, tuxedos, whoopee cushions, movie sets, flaming arrows, Super Bowl commercials, Las Vegas, boxing lessons, and selling orgasms. With a unique voice, Jackie describes her two-year journey from wallflower to movie star while struggling to find herself and hold on to the people she loves most. It is not an everyday excursion. It is an extraordinary personal adventure filled with unforgettable characters. Uncommon Strange is a pleasurable and heartfelt tale about the remarkable events that unfold in a young woman's life told from her level-headed point of view. It's warm, witty, wild, and wonderful. It's anything but ordinary, and it is not just strange. It's Uncommon Strange.
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