Published: 2007Rating: 4
307 Pgs.
Paperback $8.99
14 year-old Katy leaves Montreal to spend two and a half weeks in LA with the dad she barely knows - who happens to be "The Rat", a punk drummer from the legendary band "Sucks." Her mother has gone to Peru to research and archeological site, and this is the first time they've been separated. Katy has been raised to be polite and kind, so the various rockers, punks, and free spirits that she meets in Los Angeles are all very strange to her. She doesn't say much, just listens. She's never had any appreciation for any kind of music, but is now thrown headfirst into a world she does not know, and does not care to know.
Her father has bribed a young female musician, Lake Suck, to keep her company. And on her own she meets a couple of other teenagers. So when her mother decides to spend the entire summer in Peru, Katy has no choice but to stay in LA. Lake has christened her "Beige", and she becomes known by that name.
This is an interesting story about a girl learning to be herself. It is also a story about overcoming the odds (most of the adults in the book are recovering addicts), and learning about what friendship and family really means. I liked it.
First Line/s: "The first thing I notice as the plane lands at LAX is that it is cloudy and pouring rain. So much for the myth that it's always sunny in Los Angeles."
1 comment:
I'm thinking I like this book just because it has a character named Lake Suck. And yes, I live in L.A., where we've had June Gloom for a couple of weeks now, clouds and dank, dark skies everywhere you look.
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