Welcome Megan Crane, a writer like nobody else….
Today on Trapped by the Mormons, I’m happy to introduce Megan Crane, author of Everyone Else’s Girl.
I could tell you a little bit about this fascinating book, and the author who wrote it, but I think it’s easier to let her do it.
I wrote the bulk of EVERYONE ELSE’S GIRL while involved in what I like to call an “extended move” from York, England to Los Angeles, which really means I spent six months hidden away in my parents’ attic finishing up my dissertation, something I felt I was unlikely to do once I escaped west.
What, I thought at the time, was more likely to make a grown women revert to her absolute worst than an extended stay right smack in the middle of her adolescence? I knew what that was like, after all. I spent most of my twenties living in short term housing in random cities (four months in Hoboken, NJ, I’m looking at you), student housing (as detailed in my first novel, English As A Second Language - that communal kitchen cured me of being a slob where years of my mother’s tutelage never could), or crammed into my childhood bedroom on the second floor of my parents’ house. Complete with twin beds, rules concerning the use and placement of towels, and all those surround-sound memories of my hideous teen years. And that was just in the bedroom.
I hope you enjoy Meredith’s journey back to the family home!
5 REASONS YOU SHOULD NEVER MOVE BACK HOME WITH YOUR PARENTS
1) No more privacy
2) Having to hear humiliating stories about your childhood
3) High school reunions from hell
4) Forget about dating
5) Watch out, you’ll become your mother!
More about the book:
Advance praise for EVERYONE ELSE’S GIRL:
“Megan Crane rules! Cancel your evening plans: you won’t want to stop reading until you’ve devoured every delicious word.”
—Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries series and Every Boy’s Got One
Megan Crane’s debut novel, English as a Second Language, was a hit when it was published last year, garnering overwhelming buzz and now in its fourth printing. Kirkus called it “an engrossing, intelligent read never lacking in drama or humor,” and author Melissa Senate (The Solomon Sisters Wise Up) hailed it as a “very funny, from-the-heart debut.” Crane’s sophomore effort, EVERYONE ELSE’S GIRL (Warner Books Trade Paperback Original; October 21, 2005; $12.95), is a smart, sassy story about a quintessential “good girl” who discovers she may not be so good after all. EVERYONE ELSE’S GIRL is a welcome addition to the newly minted 5 SPOT imprint launching this fall.
Meredith McKay has gone to a lot of trouble to create the picture-perfect life for herself—far away from her troublesome family, thank you. When her father’s car accident forces her back to her hometown, however, she soon discovers that there’s no running away from family issues—there’s only delaying the inevitable.
Can anyone sort out a lifetime of drama in one hot summer? Throw in a hot guy from back in high school with an axe to grind, a best friend turned enemy turned soon-to-be-sister-in-law, and, of course, the sometimes irritating/sometimes delightful members of her own family, and Meredith is on her way to figuring out that a trip through the past is the best way to move forward.
With one revelation after another coming to light, Meredith must reexamine all the things she’s ever believed, including the truth about herself. Could it be that she isn’t the picture-perfect good girl she always thought she was? EVERYONE ELSE’S GIRL is a funny, poignant reminder that a trip through the past is usually the best –and only – way to move forward.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Megan Crane, author of her debut novel English as a Second Language, is a New Jersey native who graduated from Vassar and received her MA and PhD in literature from the University of York in England. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
