



"Wish is a magical novel." Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of SLEEPERS "Fast-paced and funny...A winner." Adriana Trigiani "Wish is wonderful. Melina Bellows breaks through with a fresh new voice that will carry you blissfully down memory lane." Ben Sherwood
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Wish
Melina Gerosa Bellows
When your entire life has been one long search for that
mysterious "something" that will finally make you happy and
complete, what you want changes faster than the fashions in
Vogue. But that doesn't mean you stop wishing, does it? This is Bella Grandelli's heartbreaking, hilarious, and
seemingly hopeless quest-from her days as a pudgy, insecure
eight-year-old in the seventies, to a Madonna-worshipping
Notre Dame co-ed in the eighties, where she tries on
boyfriends as if they're leg-warmers, to a martini-sipping
entertainment journalist in the nineties. The only constant
through her love-life chaos is her twin brother, Bobby,
whose mysterious illness has been a source of both triumph
and tragedy-no matter how hard Bella tries to wish him
well. But it's only when her family faces a devastating
crisis that she finally realizes the painful truth about
herself and her life. And no one is more surprised than
Bella herself when that journey leads her to the only
person in the world who holds the key to her heart.

NAL Trade, October 2005
224 pages ISBN: 0451216539 Trade Size $12.95
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