My Girl

Overview

In the sun-drenched summer of 1972, Vada Sultenfuss, a precariously sensitive eleven-year-old tomboy with a precocious fascination for makeup and a profound fear of germs, navigates the awkward landscape of adolescence in her quiet Pennsylvanian town. Her world is a vibrant, often chaotic, tapestry woven with the routines of her widowed father, a funeral director, and the steady presence of her best friend, Thomas J. Sennett, a sweet, bespectacled boy who is her constant companion. As Vada embarks on a journey of self-discovery, marked by the burgeoning of new friendships and the stirrings of first love, she grapples with unspoken emotions, familial complexities, and the universal, yet deeply personal, passage from childhood innocence to a dawning understanding of life's profound beauty and its inevitable sorrows.