Flower

A relationship with a mysterious pop star turns a girl's life upside down in "a great novel about first love . . . a very touching book" (Fresh Fiction).

These are the things that I've always wanted:

To get the top grades in my class.

To make my grandmother proud.

And most of all, proof that I could succeed where the rest of my family had not: a Stanford acceptance letter, early admission.

My mother and my sister were obsessed with boys and love and sex. So obsessed that they los...