{"id":1988,"date":"2008-05-11T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:58","slug":"having-what-she-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"Having What She Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything You Want<\/a>
by Barbara Shoup<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you lose a self you haven\u2019t found yet? Do you have to find your true self to be able to let it go?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>High school was only kind of okay \u2013 it wasn\u2019t the Best Years of Your Life like it was advertised, and Emma Hammond was fairly glad when it was over. Her freshman year of college isn\u2019t turning out to be too cool, either. Emma\u2019s only company, now that her former best friend Josh Morgan has gone AWOL, is her goose, Freud \u2013 well, it\u2019s the Psych Department\u2019s goose, but it was assigned to her. When she finds out Freud\u2019s going to be destroyed after the psychology experiment, she\u2019s got to take him home. He was hers, after all. Freud is all she\u2019s got\u2026 now that Josh has punched her in the face and knocked her out. (Long story short: it was just that she was in love with him. <\/p>\n

And told him. <\/p>\n

It SO didn\u2019t go well.)<\/p>\n

When the goose lays a golden egg \u2013 almost literally \u2013 things change for the whole Hammond family, and it\u2019s fifty million dollars worth of change. Her father\u2019s dream of owning a Corvette \u2013 fulfilled. Her mother\u2019s dream of having the art studio of her dreams \u2013 fulfilled. Emma wants something intangible, but she\u2019s not sure what. Suddenly, all the things that are wrong with Emma seem \u2026huge. And she\u2019s got to do something about them. After all, money is no object anymore, right?<\/p>\n

Who knew that money doesn\u2019t really simplify\u2026 anything?<\/p>\n

How can you decide what you need when you can have Everything You Want?<\/p>\n

Barbara Shoup has written an angsty, funny, poignant novel about confusion and heartache and \u2026life. Read it. Even if you don\u2019t win Lotto Cash afterwards, you\u2019ll be richer for it.<\/p>\n

This review was first published in the March\/April ’08 issue of The Edge of the Forest<\/a> Children’s Literature Monthly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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