My name is Holly.This story is about me--a writer who's way behindon her deadline.

But, honestly, how can I concentrate on my work when my fiftieth birthday's rushing at me like a freight train,

my hormones are making me feel like a Szechuan flambe, and my eighty-year-old mother's biting her nurses?

Not to mention the fact that my daughter's just begun applying to colleges (none of which are within a thousand-mile radius of home),

and lately my husband's been such an irritating, finger-pointing stinker that I've found myself dreaming of ways to spend his insurance money . . .

My name is Holly.This book tells my story--a coming-of-middle-age story.

An utterly authentic story of first (and second and third) love, told in accessible free verse and featuring a new cover and larger trim size.
"It's not that I'm boy crazy."
"It's just that even though"
"I'm almost fifteen"
"I've been having sort of a hard time"
"trying to figure out the difference"
"between love and lust. "
"It's like"
"my mind"
"and my body"
"and my heart"
"just don't seem to be able to agree"
"on anything."
Get to know Sophie, a freshman in high school who's struggling through the daily grind and all the crushes that come with it, as she shares her innermost thoughts and feelings in this remarkably relatable novel in verse from Sonya Sones.