READ TO ME SPREE WEEK...with Patricia Smith

<p>SPREE WEEK DAY 2, we dive straight in at Chapter 1 of <strong>THE YEAR OF NEEDY GIRLS</strong> <strong>by Patricia Smith.</strong> Here, the stakes of the entire novel are set with a sure hand, in just three pages. Here we meet Deidre, one half of the main couple of Deidre and Sara Jane. Deirdre is a teacher in a town that’s just been cleaved through the heart — even though no one quite knows it yet.</p>