Age: 27
female
Annalise Basso is an American film and television actress and model. She is the youngest child of Marcie Basso and has an older brother and sister named Gabriel and Alexandria. Most of her initial roles have been on television commercials or small one time roles on different shows. Her first role that caught the attention of people was her role as Eden Hamby on True Blood. In 2009, she played a main role in the TV movie Love Takes Wing from the Love Comes Softly series. When she was 10, she took part in the Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? where she played one of the students. Basso's first lead role in a feature film is in D.J. Caruso's Standing Up, a coming of age flick based on a book by Brock Cole called The Goats, which debuted at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow is introduced to crank on a trip to visit her wayward father. Caught up in a fast-paced, frightening, and unfamiliar world, she morphs into "Bree" after she "shakes hands with the monster." Her fearless, risk-taking alter ego grows stronger, "convincing me to be someone I never dreamed I'd want to be." When Kristina goes home, things don't return to normal. Although she tries to reconnect with her mother and her former life as a good student, her drug use soon takes over, leaving her "starving for speed" and for boys who will soon leave her scarred and pregnant. Hopkins writes in free-verse poems that paint painfully sharp images of Kristina/Bree and those around her, detailing how powerful the "monster" can be. The poems are masterpieces of word, shape, and pacing, compelling readers on to the next chapter in Kristina's spiraling world. This is a topical page-turner and a stunning portrayal of a teen's loss of direction and realistically uncertain future.
