Books with author Matthew J Perini

I hate my father, I look like Barbie on the outside and feel like a freak on the inside. This girl's private school on a Carribean Island is the only home I've ever known and I'm happiest when I'm alone. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen often enough, except in the summer. No. What happens is having to drink toilet water, well, weekly. I'm sixteen, and maybe figuring a few things out...So after a few hard kicks in the ribs, I’m left alone on the floor of the bathroom still coughing and trying to catch my breath. Through the searing pain in my lungs, I notice something weird: I’m not as wrecked as I usually am. I pull myself up, get to my dorm to brush my teeth, wash and get a new set of clothes on. Then, I go hide in my attic. What’s changed, then? Curling up on the old sofa that’s been my safe place my whole life, I wonder where I found the courage to mouth off at my nemesis back there. Maybe growing up can be an interesting experience instead of the same old.And right in that second, the feeling I had three weeks ago of being watched comes rushing back.And the weirdest question I have ever heard comes out of a dark corner - a question that's going to change everything: for better? Maybe. For worse...“What’s it like to be you?”