title: Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets
author: Lisa Rowe Fraustino
description: What family doesn't have secrets? The <i>Dirty Laundry</i> collection, edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino (author of <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0531068897/${0}"><i>Ash</i></a>), explores this universal fact of life via 11 original short stories penned by acclaimed young adult writers. <a href="/exec/obidos/exact-author=Salisbury%2c%20Graham/${0}">Graham Salisbury</a> shines with "Something Like ... Love," his story about a Hawaiian boy who befriends a Caribbean man of mystery and in the process learns a little about what matters in life. In "Popeye the Sailor," <a href="/exec/obidos/exact-author=Crutcher%2c%Chris/${0}">Chris Crutcher</a> uses the cycle of child abuse to reveal that secrets tend to rear their hideous heads--no matter how firmly they are pushed aside. <a href="/exec/obidos/exact-author=Kerr%2C%20M.%20E./${0}">M.E. Kerr</a> artfully explores the haunting of a teenage girl by her dead adoptive brother in "I Will Not Think of Maine," and in "Passport," <a href="/exec/obidos/exact-author=Anderson%2C%20Laurie%20Halse/${0}">Laurie Halse Anderson</a> takes an amusing look at a young person torn between divorced parents and struggling to create a reality all his own. Diverse as they are, the stories share the quality of compelling, solid writing, as well as the message that no matter how normal or perfect a family appears, secrets are sure to lurk just beneath the surface. <i>--Brangien Davis</i>
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