The author's voice is strong-she bears watching. so its not so bad, its not like were in the wrong part of the town we may. Outsider Artist” label that Alice tags him with, Simon isn't the stock football player (he volunteers at the aquarium and has actual feelings) members of the artsy and popular crowds overlook stereotypes long enough to commingle willingly by the end. Kristen Gallagher co-edits Truck Books with Christopher Alexander and. Alice and Jewel are regulars at the Green Bean organic coffee shop, friends with the video store clerk (“Greetings, darlings,” he says as they return a Japanimation DVD) and connoisseurs of the indie music scene. Is she ready for this world, or notFrom the Hardcover edition. But Gallagher infuses the usual fluff with personality, in part via the offbeat Seattle setting. Now her heart is frantically pounding out “two-guys-at-once-two-kisses-you-have-to-choose,” and, she says, “I don't know if my heart can survive that kind of beating.” Yes, this story has been told before. So, when Jewel breaks the rules of friendship and kisses her, she doesn't know what to think-especially because the hunky football player, Simon Murphy, surprisingly locked lips with her, too, just the day before. Artistic sixteen-year-old Vanessa has never tried to fit in, but counts the days until.

The artistic but in-the-shadows protagonist, 16-year-old Alice, and her more talented pal, a boy named Jewel, are joined at the hip-and have been since they were three. My Not-So-Still Life (Trade Paperback / Paperback). Former children's bookseller Gallagher offers a diverting view of familiar terrain in her first novel.

My Not-So-Still Life by Liz Gallagher