Instead, Mclean starts to crack when it comes to her carefully crafted personas, and ends up revealing her true self. She'll take on a new name and persona, get through school without getting close to anyone, and just wait for the day when she moves again.īut that's not what happens in Lakeview. When she and her dad land in Lakeview, she's pretty sure that it will go the same way that it has in her last four moves. Still reeling from the impact of her mother's infidelity and her parents' divorce, Mclean has a hard time getting along with her mom (even from afar), and an even harder time getting close to new people-especially because she's always moving. What could possibly be wrong with this picture? As it turns out, a lot. She gets to travel a lot, moving from one place to another with her dad plus, her mom's married to a famous college basketball coach, and she's just landed in a town where her next door neighbor is a super cute boy. You might think that Mclean Sweet has a pretty sweet life (pun totally intended). In What Happened to Goodbye, published in 2011, Sarah Dessen once again brings readers back to Lakeview (a fictional all-American town where many of her other novels are set, including Just Listen and The Truth About Forever) to explore the angst-filled life of another teenager. Let's talk about the rough and tumble teenage years-something that bestselling author Sarah Dessen has a lot of experience writing about.
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