If Wishes Were Horses
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: March 14, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312301880
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction - General; Children of prostitutes; Foster home care; Teenage girls; Teenage pregnancy; Fiction
First sentence: IN 1974, SKEETER, PIG, LUCKY, AND I lived with Lily and Kap Thompson at 313 South Beech Street, almost on the corner of East Genesee, an address that would have meant something once, Lily said.
Description: "It's 1974, and sixteen-year-old Star Hennessey is living with three other foster children in a broken-down central New York town. The daughter of an alcoholic prostitute, Star has so far escaped the gritty, painful circumstances of her life through the poems and stories she writes and recites in her head.".

"When she discovers she is pregnant, Star's search for the right course of action brings her face-to-face with the cruel exploitation she fears is her legacy, but culminates in her personal and spiritual triumph."--BOOK JACKET.