Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to
town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she
attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she
belongs.
Mclean’s
parents divorced two years ago after her mother’s extra-marital affair.
She now travels from town to town with her father as he takes on
manager positions at different restaurants. In each town, Mclean not
only changes her name, but transforms herself into an entirely different
personality. She’s been a drama queen, an over-achieving honors
student, and a varsity jock. Finally
in Lakeview, after meeting Dave, she suddenly starts using her real
name, putting down roots, making friends, and tries to be someone she’s
never been before: herself.
“The
strangest thing about all of that was that, before, in my old life, I
hadn’t been any of these things; not a student leader or an actress or
an athlete. There, I was just average, normal, unremarkable. Just
Mclean.”
But who is she now?
