Aristotle "Aris" Thibodeau is 12.5 years old and destined for greatness. Ever since her father s death, however, she s been stuck in the small town of Kanuga, Georgia, where she has to" "manage her mother Diane s floundering love life and dubious commitment to her job as an English professor. Not to mention co-parenting a little brother who hogs all the therapy money.
Luckily, Aris has a plan. Following theadvice laid out in"Write a Novel in Thirty Days " she sets out to pen a bestseller using her charmingly dysfunctional family as material. If the Mom-character, Diane, would ditch online dating and accept that the perfect man is clearly the handyman/nanny-character, Penn MacGuffin, Aris would have the essential romance for her plot (and a father in her real life). But when a random accident uncovers a dark part of Thibodeau family history, Aris is forced to confront the fact that sometimes in life as in great literature things might not work out exactly as planned."