Kimberly Akimbo (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Kimberly Akimbo (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Lindsay-Abaire, David. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780822219668.

Kimberly is a lonely 16-year-old suffering from a disease that causes her to age at more than four times the normal rate, trapping her inside the frail physical body of an elderly woman. She meets Jeff, another misfit at her school, and the two form an attachment to one another that borders on attraction. Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love.