In this delightful romantic adventure, a 16-year-old overachiever learns how to seize the day.
This is her first novel.īook Description Paperback. Southeast Asia remains close to her heart since her days as a missionary kid in New Papua-where she ate her weight in guavas and mingled with reformed headhunters and cannibals.Īutumn lives in Los Feliz, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, with her husband, J.C., and their son, Dexter.
She's spent the last couple summers working with refugees and orphans in Burma, Thailand, and Laos. Not to mention the I-can't-believe-it's-true Laotian jungle adventure that inspired "Carpe Diem,"Ī travel junkie, Autumn has explored twenty-two countries and counting. Squat toilets, profuse sweating, bamboo huts, jumbo centipedes-these are just some of the delights Autumn Cornwell has encountered in her global travels. Vassar Spore can "plan "on one thing: She'll never be the same again. On a journey from Malaysia to Cambodia to the remote jungles of Laos, Vassar is faced with things she isn't prepared for-adventure, danger, a Malaysian cowboy-slash-bodyguard her own age-and in learning to "live in the moment" uncovers a family secret that turns her world upside down. Surprise! Enter a world-traveling relative who sends her plans into a tailspin when she blackmails Vassar's parents into forcing their only child to backpack with her through Southeast Asia.
Vassar expects her sophomore summer to include both AP and AAP (Advanced "Advanced "Placement) classes. "I've got my entire life planned out for the next ten years-including my PhD and Pulitzer Prize," claims sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore, the daughter of overachiever parents, who, in true overachiever fashion, named her after an elite women's college.
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