Just Another Girl

Hope has been in love with her best friend Brady for as long as she can remember, and there is exactly one thing in the way: Parker, his girlfriend, who appears to have the perfect boyfriend, the perfect life and none of Hope's problems.

Parker's chapters say otherwise. Behind the surface she is holding together a home situation nobody at school knows about, and the effort of looking untroubled is its own kind of work.

Just Another Girl alternates between the two of them, watching the misunderstandings compound like the Rube Goldberg machines the characters build, and showing how the battle lines between girls get drawn in the first place. Elizabeth Eulberg resists the easy romance resolution: neither girl needs a boy to be whole.