The debut memoir every teen will be Twittering about

No matter how fabulous Delia's wardrobe is, the most perfect person in my high school is Scarlet Karr, hands down. Rich and blonde, she has the best of every popular-girl requisite accessory: the newest designer purses, the straightest whitest pearly veneers, even a gorgeous college boyfriend who sends roses to her dorm room and croons romantic original songs on her cell phone voice mail, which she eagerly plays on speaker phone for every girl in earshot to go crazy with jealousy over. Although she is a new Junior, a transfer student from California, it takes her only a month to rise from anonymity to the heights of social royalty, winning the lead in the school musical, a place at the head of the most popular lunch table, the lust of every straight guy, and the cultish adoration of the girls and the gays. She is the Madonna of Dansforth and with each $300 haircut and weekend in St. Lucia, her status as our very own tabloid queen swells.

Welcome inside the head of boarding school survivor Hannah Friedman-a fresh new author whose biting wit and captivating writing style is a cross between best-selling YA author Anne Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and the hysterically honest Amy Sedaris (I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence).

Everything Sucks details the teenage years in all of their cringe-worthy absurdity-from getting homeschooled in a tour bus with hippie musicians to attending one of New York's most prestigious private schools on full scholarship to developing a drug habit and eating disorder to nearly getting kicked out of Yale University before she even gets to attend. Did we mention Hannah also grew up with a rescue monkey as a sister? In the end, it's Friedman's spirit and Everything Sucks attitude that keeps her afloat, as it will for all who share in her story.

"Debut writer Friedman recounts her unconventional childhood with her musician father, animal-loving mother and a monkey named Amelia (later, a brother is born). As high school approaches, Hannah earns a scholarship to the prestigious Danforth Academy, where she is befriended by a group of wealthy, popular girls, who alternatively love each other and stab each other in the back. In conversational prose, Friedman details her quest to fit in, including her experimentation with drugs and binge eating ('How do I expect to be successful in life if I can't do something as simple as stop eating so damn much?'). Moments of self-loathing are juxtaposed with a frank account of the author's first love, which is tender without being too sentimental, as well as sexually explicit. She includes copious details from her adolescence; as a result, the impact of certain events, e.g., the death of a friend, is not fully explored. Nevertheless, Friedman is a talented storyteller, and her hopeful ending ('I know that if I want to create something amazing, I can't pour so much time and energy into hating my calves') should inspire. Ages 14 — up. A medley of books to celebrate the season." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Everything Sucks details the teenage years in all of their cringe-worthy absurdity--from getting home schooled in a tour bus with hippie musicians to attending one of New York's most prestigious private schools on full scholarship to developing a drug addiction and eating disorder to nearly getting kicked out of Yale University before she even gets to attend. In the end, it's Friedman's spirit that keeps her afloat.

From a fresh new author whose biting wit and captivating writing style is a cross between bestselling YA author Anne Brashares and the hysterically honest Amy Sedaris comes this work that details the teenage years in all of their cringe-worthy absurdity.

When everything sucks,

change everything . . .

And that's exactly what Hannah Friedman set out to do in an ambitious attempt to bust out of a life of obscurity and absurdity and into an alternate world of glamour, wealth, and popularity.

Being dubbed 'That Monkey Girl' by middle school bullies and being pulled out of sixth grade to live on a tour bus with her agoraphobic mother, her smelly little brother, and her father's hippie band mates convinces Hannah that she is destined for a life of freakdom.

But when she enters one of the country's most prestigious boarding schools on scholarship, Hannah transforms herself into everything she is not: cool. By senior year, she has a perfect millionaire boyfriend, a perfect GPA, a perfect designer wardrobe, and is part of the most popular clique in school, but somehow everything begins to suck far worse than when she first started. Her newfound costly drug habit, eating disorder, identity crisis, and Queen-Bee attitude lead to the unraveling of Hannah's very unusual life.

Putting her life back together will take more than a few clicks of her heels, or the perfect fit of a glass slipper, in this not-so-fairy tale of going from rock bottom to head of the class and back again.