“No matter how fabulous Delia’s wardrobe is, the most perfect person in my high school is Scarlet Karr, hands down. Rich and blonde, she has the best of every popular-girl requisite accessory: the newest designer purses, the straightest whitest pearly veneers, even a gorgeous college boyfriend who sends roses to her dorm room and croons romantic original songs on her cell phone voice mail, which she eagerly plays on speaker phone for every girl in earshot to go crazy with jealousy over. Although she is a new Junior, a transfer student from California, it takes her only a month to rise from anonymity to the heights of social royalty, winning the lead in the school musical, a place at the head of the most popular lunch table, the lust of every straight guy, and the cultish adoration of the girls and the gays. She is the Madonna of Dansforth and with each $300 haircut and weekend in St. Lucia, her status as our very own tabloid queen swells.”

Welcome inside the head of boarding school survivor Hannah Friedman—a fresh new author whose biting wit and captivating writing style is a cross between best-selling YA author Anne Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and the hysterically honest Amy Sedaris (I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence).

Everything Sucks details the teenage years in all of their cringe-worthy absurdity—from getting homeschooled in a tour bus with hippie musicians to attending one of New York’s most prestigious private schools on full scholarship to developing a drug habit and eating disorder to nearly getting kicked outof Yale University before she even gets to attend. Did we mention Hannah also grew up with a rescue monkey as a sister? In the end, it’s Friedman’s spirit and Everything Sucks attitude that keeps her afloat, as it will for all who share in her story.

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