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Gr 8 Up—Vanni is stuck in small-town New Mexico, dreams of college dashed by her father's diagnosis of a chronic condition that will soon render him unable to care for himself. Loyal to her parents and their hard-earned family business (and fearful of whether this genetic condition has been passed down to her), she has resigned herself to a life of restaurant-work drudgery, flings with local boys, and watching her friends go out into the world without her. When she meets Leigh and Lucas...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Before her father's Huntington's disease diagnosis, ?Savannah ("Vanni") Espinoza thought her life was on track: leave her small New Mexico town, maybe swim for a Division II college. Now it's the summer after graduation, and Vanni is feeling adrift. She's working at the family restaurant, hooking up with guys, and trying not to think about the medical test she can take now that she's eighteen that can predict whether or not she has inherited her father's Huntington's genetics. At her second j...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Before her father's Huntington's disease diagnosis, ?Savannah ("Vanni") Espinoza thought her life was on track: leave her small New Mexico town, maybe swim for a Division II college. Now it's the summer after graduation, and Vanni is feeling adrift. She's working at the family restaurant, hooking up with guys, and trying not to think about the medical test she can take now that she's eighteen that can predict whether or not she has inherited her father's Huntington's genetics. At her second j...Log In or Sign Up to Read More