Embracing You, Embracing Me

✍ Scribed by Bellon, Michelle

• Publisher: Fingerpress
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 173 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The 90s - home of boy bands, individualism, teenage angst, ultra skinny models, and "Whatever!"...

In a decade when image matters, when the so-called Generation X is swelling with 'future perfect' hopes and pride, 16-year-old Roshell McRady dances her way through High School, never quite admitting that she's ashamed of her trailer park family home. Meanwhile she listens to Madonna while conjuring creative Top Ramen recipes to feed her younger cousins; she empties enough hairspray until her bangs are feathered and vertical like a lethal weapon; and she agonises over how to convince Gabriel Harrison, the new Mystery Guy in town, to invite her to the prom - a night which threatens to turn into a disaster.

But then life takes a dramatic turn for Roshell, and her life changes forever.

A love story emerges from the anguish of Roshell's life, and when she leaves school and finds work at a casino, things don't get any less complicated for her - until one night a powerful dream marks out the exact path that she must take.

Embracing You, Embracing Me is unmistakeably a product of the 90s, sassy and evocative without being nostalgic. For teenagers in 2011, it's a springboard into a vivacious past of not so long ago.