If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous By Now: True Stories from Calabasas
by Via Bleidner
From the publisher's website:
For Via Bleidner, transferring to Calabasas High from the private
Catholic school she’s attended since second grade is a culture shock,
not to mention absolutely lonely. Suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar
world of celebrities, affluenza, and McMansions, Via takes a page from
Cameron Crowe and pretends she’s on a journalism assignment, taking
notes on her classmates and jotting down bits of overheard gossip.
Getting
through high school in Calabasas is something else—from Kim Kardashian
endorsing the students’ favorite hidden lunch spot, to the theater
program hiring a famous dog to play Elle Woods' Chihuahua in its
production of Legally Blonde, and Kanye trying to take control of your school to make it the very first YEEZY institution.
But
instead of floating through high school detached from her peers, Via
finds that putting herself out there—for her writing, of course—just
might have been exactly what she needed. She unexpectedly finds an
eclectic group of friends to call her own, including a
multi-multi-millionaire, a wild-card throwback intent on going viral, a
former Disney actor, and a doughnut-dealing madman.
With wit,
candor, and sharp observations, twenty-one-year-old Via grounds the
surreal glamour of Calabasas with reflections on her own coming-of-age,
sharing her teenage misadventures as she struggles to fit in, faces
crushing social pressure, and eventually makes her own way.
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