Tangled by Carolyn Mackler

Author:Carolyn Mackler [Mackler, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780061731068
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2010-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

In case it’s not obvious, I’m one of those rich, privileged, New York City kids that the rest of the world loves to hate. I had an Italian tutor when I was two. Etiquette classes at four. Broadway dancers performing for my birthday parties and, later, professional aestheticians on hand at my sleepovers. I’ve always had the right clothes and the right shoes and the right friends and, basically, whatever I wanted five minutes before I wanted it.

I’m the perfect storm of overindulged offspring. I’m an only child. My mom lives off a trust fund from her oil tycoon grandfather so we have all the money in the world and she doesn’t have to work to get it. And there’s no boyfriend or husband to siphon away her cash or attention.

My dad died before I was born. From what my mom has told me, it was this tragically magnificent love story. His name was Andres Oliveira and he was an artist from Brazil. He came to New York for a year on a painting fellowship and my mom met him at his gallery opening. They fell in love and she got pregnant but then he went back to São Paulo and died in a motorcycle accident. All we have now are some framed photos of him around the apartment, and one of his paintings hangs in our foyer. We don’t talk about him much, but sometimes I catch my mom looking at the painting and I imagine she’s thinking about him, wondering how things would have been different if he’d lived. As it is, I don’t know a word of Portuguese. And my only relatives are my mom’s family. They live in Texas and hate the East Coast, so we have to go out there if we want to see them.

That’s probably why my mom and I are so close. My acting made us even closer. For the past seven years, she’s accompanied me to everything—auditions, classes, headshots, taping, more classes, more auditions, another round of headshots. In a way, acting takes over your life. All through junior high and high school, when my friends were blowing off their afternoons in Central Park, I was practicing lines, auditioning, being rejected ninety-nine percent of the time, occasionally booking a role. When I wasn’t auditioning or working, I was taking singing lessons. I was doing tap and ballet and Pilates. And then, every Saturday morning, I had my on-camera class. I did that for three years, at the Ron Clarkson Studio in the west twenties. Ron’s a well-known acting coach. Now I only see him one-on-one if I have a complex audition. At first, Ron had me in the teen class, then he graduated me to the adult one. Basically, it was a bunch of us sitting in a circle. We’d do scenes in front of a camcorder, and then we’d watch the footage and Ron would give us notes, how to improve our skills and how to use the camera to maximize our looks.

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