Laurie Billings is a highly imaginative, precocious high school freshman living in the heartland of the United States in 1961. Five-feet-nine-inches tall and fully developed, she has the appearance of an adult-but inside she is still an immature child prone to tantrums, verbal outbursts, insecurity, and more than the usual teenage angst. But her world turns upside down when she ventures into her grandmother's attic and discovers her birth certificate...with a different man listed as her father. Has her whole life been a lie? What else has her mother kept from her? Searching for her place in...