A Girl Like Grace

Chapter 1

Hey 👋 guys this is my first book so be supportive and I'm going try to make it the best for everyone to enjoy :)
-Shalani

Grace lives with her train wreck of a mother Lisa in a Mississippi trailer park and feel like an outcast at school, where's she's taunted by the ring leader of a mean-girls clique and mourns the recent lost of her best friend India to suicide. The exact circumstances surrounding India's death are presented as a mystery the book slowly unravel with the arrival of her best friend alluring older sister Share, who takes Grace under her wing and encourages the 17 year old to embrace her sexuality

Grace and India may have been more than just platonic pals, there's something at once more conventional and less complex motivating Grace's sullen behavior at school. After the truth comes out, so to speak, eventually derailing completely by falling into the hoary old trap of a women's sexual exploration leading to explosion and assault

Grace becomes friendly with Share, who's India's older sister. Share introduces Grace to the underworld of thuggery, drug and passionless sex. Grace disconnects from the bright studious girl we meet in the beginning of the book to replace all that potential with a sexy party girl after being de-flowered by Jason, as she locks into a careless bender that leads form boy to boy to girl. Grace chooses to lose her sense of self: abandoning all her amazing potential to dumb it down party girl in and endless cycle of hopelessness and poverty that had entrapped her mother as a girl. Grace could get locked in generational cycle that her mother is yet to be liberated from and could possibly doom her own future of opportunities.

While Grace's world is falling apart her mother, Lisa has a couple of tryst that leads to ill effect. The breaking point comes when Grace can no longer sustain her vapid and senseless pursuits with a serious of really surprising negative moments. Lisa has come to her senses and has faced her own reckoning of sorts that makes her more open to her daughters needs. Once the two are joined again as mother and daughter there are emotional moments of reconciliation and redemption that humanize them both in a meaningful familial way

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-Shalani 💞