Keeping the Moon was the last book I wrote while working at the Flying Burrito, and because of that it is thick in all of my best waitress stuff. Wacky yet wise, Morgan and Isabel help Colie see herself in a new way and realize the potential that has been there all along. But then she lands a job at the Last Chance Cafe and meets fellow waitresses Morgan and Isabel, best friends with a loving yet volatile relationship. Always an outcast - first for being fat and then for being “easy” - Colie has no friends at home and doesn’t expect to find any in Colby, North Carolina. In some parts of the world this novel is entitled Last Chance so in an attempt to be embracing I will tags and categorise it with Last Chance as well as Keeping the Moon.Ĭolie expects the worst when she’s sent to spend the summer with her eccentric aunt Mira while her mother, queen of the television infomercial, tours Europe. The love interests are varied, from a deceitful professional athlete for Morgan to a sincere artist surviving as a short-order cook for Colie.The people have spoken (well, all eleven that chose to vote) and the fourth book covered by the Sarah Dessen Diarist is Keeping the Moon.

The nifty and not-so-nifty relationships between men and women are observed through the eyes of a teen just on the verge of exploring such things on her own level. Colie feels hopeless until she accepts a job in a restaurant, where two fellow waitresses, both past their high school worries, share their beauty, boy, and life-management secrets with her. Worse still is the reappearance of Colie's hometown nemesis who continues to spread slanderous rumors about her. Unfortunately, Mira attracts lots of negative gossip. With this change of scene, she hopes to escape her role as social victim. Colie has recently dropped 45 pounds, but unlike her positive-thinking mother, the teen has not succeeded in shedding her negative self-image. Because her aerobics-star mother is taking her famous weight-loss program to Europe, 15-year-old Colie leaves her home in Charlotte to spend the summer with her endearing but uncompromisingly unusual Aunt Mira in coastal Colby, NC.

Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen