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The Trouble With Lexie
Jessica Anya Blau

The Trouble With Lexie

HarperPerennial (Jul 2016)
9780062416452
| Trade Paperback
English
Dewey F BLA
LC Classification PS3602.L397 .T76 2016
LC Control No. 2016009762

Genre

  • Fiction

Subject

  • Fiction / Coming Of Age
  • Fiction / Contemporary Women
  • Man-woman Relationships - Fiction
  • Self-actualization (Psychology) In Women - Fiction
  • Self-realization In Women - Fiction

Plot

From the beloved author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and The Wonder Bread Summer comes the jaw-dropping story of Lexie James, a counselor at an exclusive New England prep school, whose search for happiness lands her in unexpectedly wild trouble.Lexie James escaped: after being abandoned by her alcoholic father, and kicked out of the apartment to make room for her mother’s boyfriend, Lexie made it on her own. She earned a Masters degree, conquered terrifying panic attacks, got engaged to the nicest guy she’d ever met, and landed a counseling job at the prestigious Ruxton Academy, a prep school for the moneyed children of the elite.But as her wedding date nears, Lexie has doubts. Yes, she’s created the stable life she craved as a child, but is stability really what she wants? In her moment of indecision, Lexie strikes up a friendship with a Ruxton alumnus, the father of her favorite student. It’s a relationship that blows open Lexie’s carefully constructed life, and then dunks her into shocking situations with headline-worthy trouble.The perfect cocktail of naughtiness, heart, adventure and humor, The Trouble with Lexie is a wild and poignant story of the choices we make to outrun our childhoods—and the choices we have to make to outrun our entangled adult lives.