In a beguiling story of self-discovery, meet 13-year-old Sandy, a scrappy, agnostic girl who believes she's discovered the Meaning of Life. Like a linear jigaw of the 1970s, Sandy assembles her personal vignettes, revealing her family's story as displaced New Yorkers in Small Town USA, and her own push-pull entry into adulthood - the ways in which she wants to emulate her intellectual/artist mother and the ways she'll choose to diverge. For reviews and press, see www.nancyfreund.com