Deirdre Riordan Hall es una autora cuyas obras a menudo se sumergen en el reino de la fantasía, explorando temas de crecimiento y la búsqueda de la magia. Crea narrativas cautivadoras que atraen a los lectores a mundos intrincados y paisajes emocionales complejos. Su escritura es celebrada por su habilidad para capturar la esencia de las experiencias juveniles, infundiéndolas al mismo tiempo con una sensación de asombro. Los lectores conectan con su voz distintiva y la forma cautivadora en que da vida a sus personajes y sus viajes.
Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn't always fat, but fat is what she is now at age seventeen. When Sugar meets Even, she has the new experience of someone seeing her and not her body. As their unlikely friendship builds, Sugar allows herself to think about the future for the first time, a future not weighed down by her body or her mother
When her uncle agrees to pay the tuition at a private boarding school, seventeen-year-old Pearl hopes to escape the homelessness and drama of life with her mother, a former rock star who's ruined her life with drugs.