Story of a Girl
Realistic Fiction
By Sara Zarr
Reviewed by Shilo Fuller
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Imagine making a huge mistake as a teenager. Now imagine that mistake is you being caught “in the act” with your older brother’s best friend by your father. This is reality for Deanna Lambert, a small town girl whose story spread like wildfire.
Now, three years later, Deanna is living with her parents, her brother, and his new wife and baby. Life at home hasn’t been easy since the “incident,” especially because neither she nor her father have ever really forgiven her. Deanna plans to save up enough money during the summer to get a place with her brother and his family and a small, dark pizza shop id her only option for a summer job. Deanna gets the job and you’ll never guess who her co-worker is.
Throughout the summer Deanna makes a fair share of mistakes but in the end she learns important lessons. Can Deanna ever manage to forgive herself though? And what about her father, will he learn to forgive her as well?
Sara Zarr does an amazing job telling the Story of a Girl. She does a great job showing the emotional depression of a teen that made one mistake that changed the way people look at her for the rest of her life. Once you get into this book you won’t want to put it down, it’s a page-turner and it definitely deserved the National Book Award it won.
