Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar

Authors: Oxford, Kelly
Publisher: It Books
BISAC/Subject: BIO026000, HUM003000, BIO022000, HUM011000, HUM012000
ISBN: 9780062102249, Related ISBNs: 0062102249, 9780062102232, 9780062102249
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 336,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

Kelly Oxford is . . .

A wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-olds

Not the queen of the world

An underage schnitzel-house dishwasher

The kid who stood up to a bully and almost passed out from the resulting adrenaline rush

A born salesman

Capable of willing her eyesight to be 20/20

That girl who peed her pants in the gas station that one time

Totally an expert on strep throat

Incapable of making Leonardo DiCaprio her boyfriend

A writer

A certified therapy assistant who heals with Metallica mixtapes

"Not fat enough to be super snuggly." —Bea, age four

Not above using raspberry-studded sh*t to get out of a speeding ticket

"Bitingly funny. But everybody knows that." —Roger Ebert

Sad that David Copperfield doesn't own a falcon

A terrible liar

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