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The book of Essie / Meghan MacLean Weir.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.E4324496 S49 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weir, Meghan MacLean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pregnant teenagers.
- Teenage girls--Fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Celebrities--Fiction.
- Celebrities.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Pregnant teenagers--Fiction.
- Reality television programs--Fiction.
- Reality television programs.
- Evangelists--Fiction.
- Evangelists.
- Children of clergy--Fiction.
- Children of clergy.
- High school students--Fiction.
- High school students.
- Gay teenagers--Fiction.
- Gay teenagers.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 319 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]
- Summary:
- [A] novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the emotionally stirring, wildly captivating story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart.
- Esther Ann Hicks is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie's mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she arranges an emergency meeting with the show's producers: Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Do they pass the child off as Celia's? Or do they try to arrange a marriage-- and a ratings-blockbuster wedding? Meanwhile, Essie is quietly pairing herself up with Roarke Richards, a senior at her school with a secret of his own to protect. As the newly formed couple attempt to sell their fabricated love story to the media, how much is she willing to sacrifice to win her own freedom?
- Notes:
- "A Borzoi book."
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780525520313
- 0525520317
- 9780525436072
- 0525436073
- OCLC:
- 1002211678
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