Gr 8 Up—Brimming with humor and absurdity, Zimmermann's latest follows two sisters desperate to keep what
remains of their family intact after their mother tries to abandon them for a Justin Timberlake concert and instead
ends up dead in the shed. Witty, unexpectedly emotionally powerful, and unforgettable.

Is Drew a rigid rule follower, or simply trying to survive while juggling an impossible array of adult responsibilities? She's seventeen, with a younger sister and half brother. They live with her mother who comes across as being somewhere on the sliding scale of narcissism and sociopathy. When Justin Timberlake-obsessed Mom takes off for one of his concerts in Mexico, Drew is left not only with all her current adult responsibilities, but new, unexpected, and much scarier ones. The most pressing is the man from social security who is investigating potential fraud by their mother, Heidi, regarding their dead grandmother. She's still collecting Gram's retirement checks. Add in an overemotional boyfriend, the growing coolness and snark from her sister, the antics of the step brother, plus a huge surprise regarding their mother, and all of a sudden Drew is in a giant crisis.
Read the book to discover how she manages all this and more. It's darkly funny, gruesome at times and ends in a surprising way. Altogether a top notch book. ( )