Title: Inconvenient
Description: While fifteen-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant Alyssa tries desperately to cope with her mother's increasingly out-of-control alcoholism by covering for her and pretending things are normal, her best friend Lana attempts to fit in with the popular crowd at their high school.
Subjects: Immigrants, Jews, Russian Americans, Popularity, Fiction, High schools, Schools, Alcoholism, Children's fiction, New jersey, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Friendship, fiction
Places: United States