Hannah Friedman, author of the teen memoir EVERYTHING SUCKS: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in a High School Quest for Cool, grew up home schooled with a monkey as an older sister and dreamed of blossoming into the popularity she saw portrayed on TV. Now she’s revealing the unseemly side of life as a scholarship student among the young and fabulously wealthy. With unparalleled humor and candor, Friedman divulges stories of: • Sexual experimentation • Drug abuse • Eating disorders • Arrests • and Ivy League scandals that would make even Gossip Girl gasp!

CREDENTIALS: Yale grad Hannah Friedman is winner of the 2007 Yale Playwrights Festival and the 2008 New York Television Festival, and star and co-director of the Lifetime TV show Flying Solo. She has thousands of viewers on YouTube.

AVAILABILITY: New York, Los Angeles, nationwide by arrangement, and via telephone

CONTACT: Kim Weiss at 1-800-851-9100, ext. 212 (FL); kimw@hcibooks.com