A Girl Named Charlie Lester, a novel, honorable mention at New York Book Festival

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Honorable Mention at New York Book Festival 2008 - General Fiction

Back cover text:
Charlie Lester is a waitress. She's a girl whose boyfriend pushes her so far past her breaking point that she decides to kill his pets.
Charlie Lester is a bookseller. She falls in love with a girl who makes her doubt everything she knew about life and herself.
Charlie Lester is a shopkeeper. At 26, she hires her two best friends to help run a store that will make or break her.
Told over the course of eight years, this is the story of a girl named Charlie Lester.

Reviews:

"A Girl Named Charlie Lester is a raw, up-close look at Charlie's journey from sullen, disaffected and abused teenager to confident young adult. If you laid out Charlie's story in chronological order, it would resemble the conventional form of the hero's journey...the trials Charlie must [face] are based on being female, economically disenfranchised, and having no trustworthy family members to give her guidance.

Charlie's journey will make middle-class parents blanch, but will be totally familiar to those of her generation. She is thrust into a world characterized by casual cruelties and sexual exploitation, where naiveté and economic desperation can force denigrating choices on people for no better reason than their own vulnerability. " -- Playback: STL, Sarah Boslaugh

"Sweet but not saccharine, emotionally generous... Halston lets the characters’ actions speak for them and, as a result, well-rounded personalities emerge. Charlie is a gem. A lovely piece of female confessional." -- Kirkus Reviews

"'A Girl Named Charlie Lester' is 'Reality Bites' without the cheesy romantic ending or a soulful Ethan Hawke gazing into the camera." -- EDGE Boston

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This is a self-published novel containing mature themes. Personalized copies are available, along with silly doodles on the title page.

To read more excerpts, look here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=2EsDuZr5ul8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22girl+named+charlie+lester%22&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA1,M1

Added on Oct 25, 2009

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