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Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller
Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller




is nicely specific, and although Callie's family is a bit too perfect and the resolution of whether she will stay in Florida or return to her mother is made too easy, the pleasures of watching Callie grapple with her past, future, and a new love easily outweigh these quibbles. The setting the tight-knit, heavily Greek community of Tarpon Springs, Fla. Doller (Something Like Normal) makes Callie believably tough, scarred, and loyal, more used to hooking up than actually dating.

Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller

Then comes a traffic stop, and suddenly her mother is in police custody, and Callie is meeting the father she barely remembers.

Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller

Five then, 17 now, Callie has had many names, and she wears thrift-store T-shirts that transform her into "a Cowboys fan or someone who's attended the Jenkins-Carter family reunion." She can wash her hair in a rest area sink and take care of herself and her erratic mother. But when Callies mom is finally arrested for kidnapping her, and Callies real dad whisks her back to what would have been her life, in a small town in Florida, Callie must find a way to leave the past behind. Not only does Callie have secrets, she is one: she and her mother have been on the run since her parents split up and her mother abducted her.






Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller