Description

Judy Lohden is the over-normal sixteen-year- susceptible and old—sarcastic, unsure and gifted, saturated in big goals for a big potential. Having an auditorium that can be shaken by a singing voice, she must be the superstar of Darcy Academia, the neighborhood performing arts senior school. Why is just a woman this encouraging hiding out in a seedy hotel room on the edge of town?The very fact following a debate that may bring down the entire college may have anything related to it that the national press is on her path. And that scandal has something—but not everything—to do with the very fact that Judy is three feet eight inches tall.Rachel DeWoskin recalls anything about senior school: the auditions (unpleasant), the parents (hanging), the dissection tasks (persuasive), the buddies (outcasts), the kids (crushable), and girls (complex), and she lays it-all out with a humor and wistfulness that's half Holden Caulfield, half Lee Fiora, Prep’s interesting heroine.