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The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton

by Richard Fifield
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The Serpent King meets Girl in Pieces in this moving and darkly funny story about a teenage girl coming of age and learning how to grieve in small-town Montana.
Tiffany Templeton is tough. She dresses exclusively in black, buys leather jackets that are several sizes too big, and never backs down from a fight. She's known in her tiny Montana town as Tough Tiff, and after her shoplifting arrest and a stint in a reform school, the nickname is here to stay.
But when she comes back home, Tiffany may not be the same old Tough Tiff that everybody remembers. Her life is different now: her mother keeps her on an even shorter leash than before, she meets with a probation officer once a month, and she's still grieving her father's recent death.
As Tiffany navigates her new life and learns who she wants to be, she must also contend with an overbearing best friend, the geriatric cast of a high-maintenance drama production, her first boyfriend, and a town full of eccentric neighbors—not to mention a dark secret she's been keeping about why the ex-football coach left town.

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  • Release date

    March 10, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781984835901

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      • ISBN: 9781984835901
      • File size: 1668 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      January 15, 2020
      A grieving teen lashes out in this dark comedy. In a small town in Montana, 15-year-old Tiffany Templeton is "the toughest girl in the trailer park"--but no one knows she keeps a typewriter case filled with secrets hidden behind the laundromat. Tiffany used to be bullied for how fat her parents were, but then her father died unexpectedly last year. Her mother had bariatric surgery and now tracks her weight loss on the price sign in front of the town's only gas station. Tiffany stays busy working on a play she wrote about young prostitutes who died in a fire in 1911--directed by her gay best friend and acted by a group of senior citizens. In scenes that flash back and forth in time, Tiffany reveals the events that led to her being sentenced to three months in juvenile detention. Fifield (The Flood Girls, 2016, etc.) succeeds in delivering a cast of quirky, unpredictable characters and an intriguing plot, especially when he focuses on the unspooling of Tiffany's backstory. However, the uneven pace and several unfortunate flippant and insensitive remarks that misfire as humor are at odds with the otherwise strong writing. All main characters are white except for Tiffany's probation officer, who is black. An ambitious tale that mostly falls flat. (Fiction. 12-18)

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