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Why Can't I Be You
Why Can't I Be You: A Novel | Allie Larkin
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Soon to be a major motion pictureAt one time or another, everyone has wished they could be someone else. Exploring this universal longing, Allie Larkin follows up the success of her debut novel, Stay, with a moving portrait of friendship and identity.When Jenny Shaw hears someone shout “Jessie!” across a hotel lobby, she impulsively answers. All her life, Jenny has toed the line, but something propels her to seize the opportunity to become Jessie Morgan, a woman to whom she bears an uncanny resemblance. Lonely in her own life, Jenny is embraced by Jessie’s warm circle of friends—and finds unexpected romance. But when she delves into Jessie’s past, Jenny discovers a secret that spurs her to take another leap into the unknown.
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Can‘t believe it took me this long to read this one, I love Stay so much and really enjoyed Swimming For Sunlight. Like her others, it‘s a witty look at a flawed heroine fumbling through the best she can. Jenny gets mistaken for a stranger and decides on a whim to pretend she‘s Jessie, and gets swept up in a life that isn‘t hers. Riveted to the very end.

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We checked ourselves in the mirror before we left. We were flushed and a little rumpled, but in a good way. We looked vibrant, wild, happy. The hair and the clothes and the makeup made me feel like someone new, but the happy is what made me unrecognizable.
-Why Can't I Be You, Allie Larkin
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maich
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3,5 stars
I enjoyed this one. It was good and different. The end was sweet and the characters were likable.

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