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“Hilariously captures teen politics . . . there’s compassion beneath the dead-on details. . . a polished debut.”
- People

“McCandless’ first novel is a hilarious, spot-on survey of the humiliations and perilous victories of a privileged adolescence…(her) wickedly funny descriptions and unerring ear for teen dialogue will appeal to any reader who remembers, or is surviving, the stomach-twisting anxiety of becoming an adult.”
- Booklist

“McCandless writes with humor and compassion and honesty about the most embarrassing time in all our lives.”
- Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness and Sighthound

“Sarah Grace McCandless is a flat-out fantastic writer. Among her many gifts is an ability to combine laugh-out-loud humor with an unaffected, devastating sadness. The result is absolute magic – the strange, beautiful truth about childhood revealed.”
- Joe Weisberg, author of 10th Grade

“When dreck like Grosse Pointe Pimp can sell out in Grosse Pointe bookstores, I can't even imagine the future for McCandless' far better debut, Grosse Pointe Girl. Can the stores order enough? Can the printers print enough?"
- Marta Salij, The Detroit Free Press

“Grosse Pointe Girl could've easily ended up as an insipid coming-of-age tale. Instead McCandless manages to make the reader aware of how much people already understand, and willfully ignore, of the world around them in those hateful/halcyon years.”
- Willamette Week