On any other Wednesday evening, you might find local writer Sarah Grace McCandless at Bar Pilar, staging pictures with friends in the photo booth, or enjoying a drink at Larry’s Lounge, her favorite dive.

Tonight, you won’t find Sarah at either place. Instead, she’ll be at Olsson’s in Penn Quarter reading from her second book, The Girl I Wanted to Be. Whether she’s already won you over with her memoir, Grosse Pointe Girl , or she’s new to you, you’ll likely appreciate McCandless’ wry sense of humor and charisma even if you’ve never fantasized about the person you wanted to be.

The story is told from the point of view of an adolescent narrator, Presley Moran, who, “is very unsure of who she is, yet at the same time, doesn’t realize how much of her character has been defined.” She’s a high school freshman straddling the line between childhood and adulthood. According to McCandless, Girl conveys, “the point in your life when you stop seeing things as a kid and you start seeing things as an adult.”