Thursday, December 31, 2015

Not Otherwise Specified

Not Otherwise Specified by Hanna Moskowitz, 260 pages


Etta has always been determined to get out of Nebraska.  Now, life is even worse.  Her former friends are bullying her at school because she's been dating a boy.  They are all lesbians and even though Etta always said she was bisexual, they fell like she betrayed them.  She is still struggling with her body and eating issues and life basically sucks.  Then she finds out about an open audition to a musical theatre school in New York.  And she also meets a girl in her eating disorder group, Bianca.  Bianca is trying out for the school with her brother, James, who is gay, and their friend, Mason, who is not.  Although Etta is convinced she can't sing well enough to get in, she decides to audition and rehearses with and becomes friends with this new group of people. Although a lot of things still suck, not everything sucks quite as much, but Etta still has a lot of problems to work out.  This was a decent book about a girl working through her life.  A lot of teens would enjoy this, not just the LGBTQ community, but teens who like realistic fiction. 

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