![]() ![]() "There's no greeting card for a case like us," she thinks.įortunately 16-year-old for Sammie, she's the one person in her family who has her head (mostly) screwed on right. Her mother Marlene is also a long-time con but a horrific experience in Vegas has driven her to retreat into a world fueled by vodka and milk cocktails and constantly threatening suicide. Her hustler father Sam lives in Toronto and is too busy hunting down the next big poker game to return her phone calls. In her third novel, One Good Hustle (Random House), Billie Livingston introduces us to Sammie, an independent young woman who has a lot on her shoulders and no one she can confide in. Add to the mix a couple of narcissistic con artists for parents and you've got a teen on the brink of making some bad choices and screwing up her life. All of these combine to make those years harder than you sometimes think you can handle. Wanting to be treated like an adult while not really wanting all the responsibilities of one. What you should read, where you should go, who you should sit up and notice.īeing a teenager can suck. ReVIEWS, preVIEWS, interVIEWS, and overVIEWS: here's where you'll find out what the Vancouver Book Club team thinks about the literary scene in Vancouver. ![]()
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