Me+and+the+Blondes



Sophia, who would like to be known as Sophie, has attended far too many schools over her junior high years. Now, in 1974, stinging from constant rejection because her alcoholic father is doing time for murder (unjustly convicted as Sophie sees it), she is determined to fake a new identity as she begins yet again at a new school. She and her beautiful, dramatic, Bulgarian mother decide to pretend that Sophie's father has died. If only they can get their story straight, everyone will sympathize with them, but of course, the devil is in the details. Sophie attaches herself to the blonde group in her homeroom and, in a series of lucky and well planned events, gradually gains their friendship and trust. Sophie's driving determination and basketball skills make her become the best player of the junior team, and connections in the Bulgarian community provide her with her job at Mike's soda fountain. This time, everything is brilliant.