My Life as a Girl

It's the long, hot summer between high school and college, and Jaime Cody is working a double shift. Days at a greasy spoon called Franklin's All-American Diner; nights at the Phoenix, a restaurant at a glitzy resort. She's hoping to earn the college money her father stole from her--and leave herself no time to think about her father's upcoming trial. A whole country lies between Arizona and where Jaime wants to be: Bryn Mawr, a college for women in Pennsylvania. Her plan is perfect--until a boy named Buddy appears, reminding her of a character in the romantic stories her mother still tells about men from past years. Jaime figures that no one has to know about Buddy. He's her secret, and he's just for the summer. In the fall she'll say good-bye and leave him far behind. Or so she thinks. . . .

Elizabeth Mosier was raised in Arizona, the setting for My Life as a Girl and for her short stories, which have appeared in Sassy, Seventeen, The Philadelphia Enquirer Magazine, and various literary magazines. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and two children, and directs Bryn Mawr's summer writing program for high school students. This is her first novel.


From the Hardcover edition.