The Girl I Used To Be Sparknotes

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The Girl I Used To Be was written by April Henry and published in 2016. This book is about a girl named Ariel Benson. Well she was born Ariel Benson but is now called Olivia. In this book you will find that (back then) Ariel’s mother was killed and her father dissapered. Alot of this book has to do with the real world. It was inspired by a real case from the 1980s. April added in her life expernces with her mom. Henry grew up in in Medford and a large portion of this book was written here. She pur eveything she loved about Medford in this book. Forteen years ago now Olivia’s perents went missing and she was found at a Walmart over a 100 miles away. Her mom was later found with 19 stabb wones out in the wood without Olivia’s father. With just finding Ariel’s mother everyone in town thinks that Ariel’s father Terry did it and has fled the United States. Ariel ends up with her grandmother but she soon dies and Ariel is places into foster care. …show more content…

They tell her that they have found him but only a part of him. His jaw bone. This make Olivia trave back to her home town Medford. Terry’s family are having his funural so on her way there she decied to stop by her grandmothers old house. In the car she also decied that it would be a good idea to not tell any about who she really was.Olivia happens to meet a woman named Nora that lives next door and she is told that Nora was her grandmothers best friend. At this point Nora tells Olivia lots of information about her family and ends up asking her to take her to Terry’s feneral. This is a preferct cover for her. With being aroud family member that she doesn’t know or have been around makes it even harder to keep her past a sercret. After seeing and hearing lots of things from many different people Olivia wants to solve her perents murders. Along the way after she moves into her grandmother old house she picks up an frien named Duncan and the grow closer and

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