num_pages: 335
description: Davie Jones--an ugly duckling growing up in small-town Mississippi with a mother who couldn't get any meaner--is positive her life couldn't be any worse. Just when she's resigned herself to her fate she sees a movie that will change her life--Sixteen Candles. But in her case life doesn't imitate art. Tormented in school and hopelessly in unrequited love with a handsome football player Davie finds it bittersweet to dream of Molly Ringwald endings. When a cruel school prank goes too far Davie leaves the life she knows and reinvents herself in the glittery world of Hollywood as a beautiful and successful lounge singer. Just as she's about to ride off into the L.A. sunset the past comes back with a vengeance threatening to crush Davie's dreams--and break her heart again.With wholly original characters and a cinematic storyline 32 Candles introduces Ernessa T. Carter a new voice in fiction with smarts attitude and sassiness to spare.
language: English
title: 32 Candles
publisher: Amistad