The Girl Who Wanted to Be Like a Spoon

THE GIRL WHO WANTED TO BE LIKE A SPOON is a glimpse of a teenage girl's life as she wanders through the shadowy world of Swansea Beach Amusement Park in the summer of 1967. Her parents are clueless that she sells newspapers in bars and forges friendships with the hippies who sleep under the pier, a cabalistic clown, an erudite sex worker, and a fortune teller. Penny's once-innocent world begins to spin out of control when she gets a crush on an older woman and faces the tragic loss of a cherished friend and protector. She emerges as a stronger person, but an encounter with her crush fifteen years later shakes her beliefs about herself and the past. This poignant and luminescent coming-of-age story will touch readers, young and old.