To make her once popular parents believe she fits in, a desperate young girl creates a fictional world for her parents' benefit. When her parents go away for the weekend, the house gets trashed during the biggest house party of the year.
This is the tender, tragicomic coming of age story of Abigail Cooke, or Pooka, as her dad calls her. To make her once popular parents believe she fits in, a desperate Abigail creates a fictional world for her parents' benefit. When her parents go away for the weekend, the house gets trashed during the biggest house party of the year. Total attendance: one lonely teenage girl.—Maurey Loeffler