Cynthia D. Grant

Phoenix Rising: Or How to Survive Your Life (1991)

This book has everything I wanted as a preteen. It is deliciously overwritten. The teenagers are ultra-poised and ultra-burned; they come off like divorcees on Knots Landing. Everyone is on cue: the peacemaking drunk of a mom, the overbearing/rageaholic dad, the distant older brother, the little ...

Uncle Vampire (1995)

The Cannibals: Starring Tiffany Spratt (2002)

The White Horse (1998)