My Flawless Life
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Publisher Description
Yvonne Woon, author of If You, Then Me, has crafted a slow-burn thriller about fixing—our friends, ourselves, and our complicated pasts. For fans of Allegedly and We Were Liars, My Flawless Life features a compelling narrator who grapples with the secrets of her private school classmates as well as her own life.
At the most elite private school in Washington, DC., whenever anyone has a problem that they need to go away, they hire Hana Yang Lerner.
Hana is a fixer. She knows who to call, what to say, and how to make sure secrets stay where they belong—buried. She can fix anything. Except her own life, which was destroyed when her father, senator Skip Lerner, was arrested for an accident that left one woman nearly dead.
Now Hana’s reputation is ruined and her friends are gone. So when she gets a job from an anonymous client called “Three” to follow her former best friend, Luce Herrera, Hana realizes this might be her way of getting back her old life.
But the dangerous thing about digging is that you never know what you’ll unearth. As Hana uncovers a dark truth about her supposedly flawless classmates, she’s forced to face a secret of her own.
* A Junior Library Guild Selection *
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After a hit-and-run involving her father decimates the family's finances and plummets her social standing, pragmatic 17-year-old Chinese and white Hana Yang Lerner becomes her prestigious private Washington, D.C. high school's fixer: "I restored reputations, I suffocated rumors. I kept secrets from spilling, and if they'd already spilled, I cleaned them up." While she spends her days sweeping up her classmates' messes, she's haunted by a secret of her own: the hit-and-run accident for which her father took the blame, leading to his resignation from his position as Virginia's Democratic senator, was actually her fault. She's soon hired by an anonymous entity to uncover a scandal regarding her former best friend, Cuban American Luce Herrera. As she investigates Luce's suspicious activity surrounding an education nonprofit, the truth about the crash threatens to unravel any sense of stability that Hana has gained. Things get even more convoluted when her job intersects with another former best friend, Chinese American James Li, and his own investigation, prompting them to team up. Woon (If You, Then Me) crafts a meticulously plotted mystery entrenched in high-society scandal and high school drama and peopled by complex, ever-evolving protagonists. It's a blistering commentary on privilege and wealth. Ages 13–up.
