![]() ![]() Shelley is adorably enthusiastic about everything in California. She goes to San Sebastian, CA hoping to meet a boy who isn’t dull as dishwater. She’d been going steady with Jack, who is a nice guy but completely boring, and Shelley didn’t know how to break things off with him. ![]() ![]() ![]() He thinks a year away will be good for her. After all, they are only going to be able to afford to send Shelley to the local State University where she will attend with a lot of her high school classmates and still live at home. It seems ridiculous at first, but Shelley’s dad thinks it would be good for her. Mavis suggests Shelley come live with them for a year. The mom keeps in contact with her old college roommate (by mail, natch), Mavis, who is quirky and fun and a mom living in a small citriculture community in California. And she just plain doesn’t understand what it’s like to be sixteen! Shelley’s mom had been a teacher, but obviously quit to become a housewife, but she doesn’t really have anything to focus on outside of Shelley. She’s an only child growing up in Portland, OR, and her mother is her biggest problem. But I actually enjoyed reading it, because it was kind of fun to compare what was relatable and what was totally WTF about it. Honestly, I went in to this expecting to roll my eyes at the fifties-ishness of the whole thing. In many ways, it’s really dated, but in other ways it’s completely timeless. ![]()
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