Carpe Diem

by Autumn Cornwell

  A FEIWEL AND FRIENDS Book

  An Imprint of Holtzbrinck Publishers

  www.feiwelandfriends.com

  eISBN 9781466807105

  First eBook Edition : December 2011

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Cornwell, Autumn.

  Carpe diem / Autumn Cornwell.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore’s detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.

  ISBN-13: 978-0-312-36792-3 / ISBN-10: 0-312-36792-9

  [1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Grandmothers—Fiction. 3. Artists—Fiction. 4. Authorship—Fiction. 5. Secrets—Fiction. 6. Life skills—Fiction. 7. Southeast Asia—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.C8164512Car 2007

  [Fic]—dc22

  2006032054

  First Edition: September 2007