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For listeners of Orange May be the New Dark and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir in regards to a lifelong magic formula and a girl finding durability in the most improbable place. In 1979 Liz Pryor is a 17-year-old woman from a good family in the rich Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her older year of high school, she discovers that she actually is pregnant - a fact her parents are driven to keep a magic formula from her friends, siblings, and community forever. One snowy January day, after travelling across three areas, her mom drops her off at what Liz thinks is a Catholic home for unwed moms - but which is, in reality, a locked government-run center for delinquent and impoverished pregnant teenage young ladies. Inside the cement-block residence, Liz is by itself and terrified, a seafood out of water - a girl from a privileged, sheltered qualifications living amid tough, street-savvy young ladies who result from the foster care and attention system or juvenile detention. But over another six months, isolated and in involuntary hiding from everyone she understands, Liz builds up a surprising relationship with the other young ladies and begins to question everything she once placed true. Advised with tenderness, humor, and an open heart and soul, Look at You Now is a deeply moving account about the most vulnerable moments in our lives - and how a willingness to trust ourselves can entirely change who we have been and how exactly we see the world.
