Absolutely

is the real name of that song that kept running through my head as I read this book.  I don't really know any of the lyrics except for "this is the story of a girl who cried a rive and drown the whole world" but it is a catchy tune.  It's funny because there are big fights on the internet about who recorded the song!  If it was Three Doors Down or Nine Days.  I've also seen it listed at Third Eye Blind.  I think it was either Three Dog Night, the Fifth Dimension or the Four Tops.  Matchbox 20, maybe.  10,000 Maniacs?  Or .38 Special.

Regardless, Story of a Girl really doesn't have anything to do with the song or these artists.  Well, maybe it does.  I mean...the girl in this book, does cry a lot.  She does have a lot to cry about, actually.  She lives in a world similar to the boys in Angry Young Man.  Deanna is branded the school slut because, back when she was thirteen, her father caught her and a senior, Tommy, inflagrante delicto.  Tommy spreads it all over town that Deanna was the aggressor.  Since the incident, Deanna's father hasn't even looked her in the eye, and that was three years ago.  
This is a short, tightly written book by Sara Zarr who wrote the amazing Once Was Lost.   I am looking forward to my next book by her.