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ANDREA PORTES
is the bestselling novelist of two critically lauded adult novels.
Hick
, her debut, has been made into a feature film starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Alec Baldwin, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, and Juliette Lewis.
Bury This
, her second novel, was published in January 2014 by Soft Skull Press.
Anatomy of a Misfit
is her third novel, and her first for young adult readers.

Andrea grew up shuffled around between such disparate locales as Nebraska, Brasilia, Texas, Rio de Janiero, Baltimore, North Dakota, California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. Finally, Andrea was granted relief from this nomadic existence when she was accepted to Bryn Mawr College. She attended on full scholarship and later graduated cum laude, with a major in English literature. She then earned her master's in fine arts degree from UC San Diego.

After her relentless education, Andrea moved to the neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles, where she spent years mostly getting into trouble. It was in this period of vague nothingness that Andrea penned her debut novel, in longhand in three notebooks. Currently, she lives in the neighborhood of Los Feliz, in Los Angeles.

 

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Anatomy of a Misfit

Copyright © 2014 by Andrea Portes

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Portes, Andrea.

  Anatomy of a misfit / Andrea Portes. — First edition

       pages cm

  Summary: “The third most popular girl in school's choice between the hottest boy in town and a lonely but romantic misfit ends in tragedy and self-realization”— Provided by publisher.

  ISBN 978-0-06-231364-5 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-06-236677-1 (int. ed.)

  EPUB Edition JULY 2014 ISBN 9780062313669

[1. Popularity—Fiction. 2. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. 3. High schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.P83615An 2014

2014008722

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CIP

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FIRST EDITION