The Way to Somewhere
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: February 26, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780743223324
Subjects: Modern fiction; American First Novelists; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary; Fiction / General; Bildungsromans; Teenage girls
First sentence: When Mr. Candesa agreed to hire me, he thought I was a twelve- year-old boy.
Description: "Tough, street-smart, and mouthy, Taylor Jessup has always been the kind of girl who knows exactly how life should be. But it seems the world around her won't cooperate - she keeps getting involved with the wrong friends, the wrong older man, even the wrong Mr. Right. Her relationship with her family is downright dysfunctional - while her mother is a holdover from the 1950s, her father embraces the go-go 1970s with abandon.

So Taylor, left to her own devices, determines her life's road map - a plan that will get her out of her house and out of Houston. A plan that will get her somewhere.".

"The Way to Somewhere traces Taylor's odyssey as she moves from teenager to woman, with equal parts awkwardness, conflict, and resolve. All the while, Taylor struggles to shape reality into her dreams of the forever after. When a complex romantic entanglement leads to a fascination with furniture restoration, Taylor seems to have found the precise balance of science and logic that she desperately seeks.

Yet somehow, her experiences continue to be more surprising and disastrous than smoothly aligned, until eventually all of these wrong turns set her life further on its own true course."--BOOK JACKET.