Not Your All-American Girl by Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Author:Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2020-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

While David was deciding on music for Hector, I went looking for Patsy Klein. Designer jeans were still my priority, but now that I knew I was getting money from Mrs. Buchanan, I figured I could splurge at Ear Wax, too. I had taped some of Patsy’s songs off the radio, but they didn’t sound as good as when Nashville Nick played them, especially since my tape captured the telephone ringing in the middle of “Crazy.” Ear Wax sold new records and used ones, all mixed together in bins. They also sold tapes. Almost every bit of space was filled with music. Usually when I came here, I started by flipping through posters or the buttons by the cash register before looking at the albums. But this time, I was on a mission. I went through the K ’s. Kajagoogoo. The Kinks. KISS.

No Patsy.

“Patsy Klein, I’m searching for you,” I sang, in the achy way Patsy would have, which reminded me that I was looking in the rock section instead of country. Only I didn’t find any Patsy Klein there, either.

The record clerk was reading a magazine and cranking the Ramones. She seemed to be trying to move as little as possible, except to move a French fry into her mouth from a greasy paper bag. She didn’t even bop to the music. Maybe because she was afraid of knocking over the tapes that were stacked on the counter like the Leaning Tower of Pisa. She was the opposite of Nashville Nick, who was very enthusiastic about sharing his music preferences.

“Hey,” I said. “Do you have any Patsy Klein?”

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