num_pages: 241
description: New York Timesbestselling author Gigi Levangie Grazer returns with Seven Deadlies a witty and wildly different novel set amid the sinful reaches of Beverly Hills narrated by a captivating gimlet-eyed Mexican-American heroine.Perry Gonzalez is not like the other kids in her Beverly Hills high schoola full-blooded Latina on a scholarship living in a tiny apartment with her mother she doesnt have much in common with the spoiled privileged kids who are chauffeured to school every morning. But Perry is a budding young writer with her sights set on Benningtonand her seven deadly stories are her ticket to the Ivory Tower. To pay her way Perrys been babysitting (correction: teenage-sitting) and tutoring the neighborhood kids and she has seen the dark side of adolescence: lust for the Judas Brothers that leads to electrocution at a private birthday party concert; wrath that inspires new and perverse family bonds; and greed in a young Bernie Madoff acolyte who conceives of a copycat Ponzi scheme involving his own grandmother.
language: English
title: Seven Deadlies: A Cautionary Tale
publisher: Blue Rider Press