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Narrated by:
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Ann Marie Gideon
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By:
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Daniel Handler
About this listen
A satire of teenage life follows cynical soon-to-graduate Flannery Culp on a raucous journey through high school in the 1990s, covering SATs, college applications, friends, boyfriends, tabloid journalism, and TV talk shows. A first novel.
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