false 3405345 1 Summertime is hot and dull in the Central Valley of California and four teenage girls from very different families are determined to spice it up. With a single-mindedness that foretells disaster, they push aside all the rules and explore the underbelly of valley life. Drugs, sex, alcohol, adventure, anything to challenge the norm, yet all experienced without the benefit of maturity. As the girls become increasingly uncontrollable, their mothers-from dramatically diverse social castes-are forced to work together to save their daughters. Like a tornado moving across the landscape, lives are wrenched from their foundations. Page after page, and over a period of two years, the author introduces characters who struggle to support and defeat the dreams of what began as four innocent girls desiring to taste the forbidden fruit. Laurel-Rain Snow's An Accidental Life is a fascinating look into not only the lives of very diverse family systems, but the mechanism that drives a cross-section of an all-American community. 3445502 5 9 2006 An Accidental Life total:4|5:3|1:1| 4 16 17 5 5 1 false false Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 09:46:36 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 11:42:12 -0700 2008 once more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 16:51:21 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 18:56:30 -0700 2009
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