Where Are You? / Teaser Tuesday (April 21)

I'm a junior in high school in the Hudson Valley. All I've ever wanted to do is cook. It's a good thing too, because my mother is busy being a congresswoman, my dad mostly practices yoga, and my five little brothers are always hungry. I like being alone in the kitchen working my way through Julia Child's books. I've just met the eccentric Lucida Sans, who's in the drama club, and I have a feeling my solitary life is about to end.

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MizB at Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesdays. Here's how it works: Grab your current read; let the book fall open to a random page; and share 2 “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. For more teasers, click on through to MizB's blog.

Elaine didn't like to talk about cooking with anyone but her father or her brothers, and she certainly was not willing to share her lifelong dream of becoming a chef and teacher with a near stranger [Lucida]. Elaine was ashamed of her dream because, as her mother had pointed out so many years ago, her ambition was of a domestic nature and had little to do with furthering the cause of gender equality or deconstructing traditional family roles. (p. 21)

--Both from Dear Julia by Amy Bronwen Zemser

Dear Julia at an Indie

Dear Julia at Powell's