![]() ![]() Now, Liz is faced with one way out without putting her grandparents through the burden of getting enough money to pay for her college. ![]() ![]() But, reality intervenes when her scholarship application gets rejected. She has plans to make music and become a doctor (so she can treat people like her brother who have Sickle Cell Disease, a genetic blood condition) and everything hinges on her getting a scholarship to her mom’s alma mater - the elite Pennington College. Her dream is to somehow get out of the small town filled with affluent white kids. But, as a black teen in the midwestern town of Campbell, Indiana, Liz believes she has it tougher than most and rightly so. Liz Lighty is that poor, socially awkward teen that we’ve all seen and heard of in many stories. But where it differs, and where the story manages to pull you in is the characters. There is the expected prom event, the popular mean girl of the campus, a very much common gossip mill in the form of a social media platform - the Campbell Confidential, among many more clichés. You Should See Me In A Crown takes off like you would expect from a teenage high-school romance. ![]()
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