The aqua-net diaries
big hair, big dreams, small town
"For anyone who has ever endured the relentless shame and soaring excitement of adolescence, author Jennifer Niven shares her own hilarious and touching tales of teenage life at a midwestern high school in the 1980s." "If you had found Jennifer Niven roaming the halls of the lone high school in Richmond, Indiana, in 1985, she would have had enormous hair. She would have been flirting with Tommy Wissel, and passing notes to her best friend Joey about whether Dean Waldemar was going to ask her to the dance. And her last name would have been McJunkin, because Niven is the pen name she planned to use whenever she finally graduated and became a famous writer/actress in some big city far, far away." "In her memoir, Jennifer takes readers back to that thrilling, excruciating, amazing, unnerving, awkward, and unforgettable time - high school - when life's greatest problems revolved around saying and doing the right thing, wrestling with geometric theorems, fretting over a bad hair day, waiting for the weekend's parties, trying not to die of boredom, and dying to be noticed by the most popular boy in school. Unique yet undeniably universal, The Aqua Net Diaries is one girl's survival story of the best years of her life."--Jacket.
