Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Hollywood Nobody-Lisa Samson

Hollywood Nobody
Lisa Samson
NAVPRESS, Sep 2007, $12.99
ISBN: 9781600060915

Fifteen years old Scotty Fitzgerald’s childhood was spent running around the country with her beloved mom, a highly regarded movie food designer. However, lately Scotty has grown tired of the hustling from one set to another and the vegan only lifestyle of her mother. However, it is the secrets that impact her that disturb Scotty the most as she writes in her blog that her mom Charlie refuses to tell her anything about the dad she never met.

While assisting her mom At Charlie’s latest film project, Scotty and rising teen movie star Seth Haas become friends. He encourages her to pressure her mom into revealing the truth as to what frightens her to be so overly protective of her and information about her father whom she wants to meet.

Although Scotty seems at time much older than she is, she makes this an interesting coming of age tale as she struggles with her mom’s secretiveness clearly out of the Dick Cheney book on governance. Her quest seems even more genuine because she never quite reaches a spiritual and emotional acceptable solution. Lisa Samson provides a warm inspirational tale of a teen needing to know the truth even if it turns out ugly.

Harriet Klausner

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