Fifteen-year-old Anna has had it with her life at home. New stepparents, a new sibling, a new school... a person can only take so much. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card and runs away to Los Angeles, where her half-sister, Delia, takes her in. But LA isn't quite the glamorous escape Anna imagined. As Anna spends her days on TV and movie sets watching Hollywood's D-list at work, she engrosses herself in a project researching the murderous Manson girls. And although the violence in her own life isn't the kind that leave physical scars, she begins to notice the parallels between herself and the lost girls of LA, and of America, past and present.

"Portions of this book originally appeared in a slightly different form under the title "Anna Has Two Mommies" in Waccamaw"--Title page verso.