CHAPTER 43

Lots of girls I know like to say they’re divas. “I’m such a diva!” they say, while they’re rubbing your nose in some five-hundred-dollar shoes their daddy bought them, or whatever. But a diva’s a lot more than most sixteen-year-old rich grrrls can comprehend. I plan to be a diva someday—the real kind who sings and gets flowers thrown onstage. But first, I have to make the perfect audition tape.

So I do.


Image Opera_Grrrl’s Online Journal


Subject: Summer Opera Program in New York—Accepted!

Date: April 10

Time: 2:13 p.m.

Listening 2: “Brindisi” from La Traviata

Feeling: Ecstatic

Weight: 115 lbs.

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!