When Sarah Dessen ’93 published “The Rest of the Story” in 2019, her daughter, Sasha, was in fifth grade. Now she is getting ready to graduate from high school, just like Finley, the lead character in Dessen’s new young adult novel, “Change of Plans.” Dessen calls it a full-circle moment. Her 15th novel is set in North Lake, the same fictional town as “The Rest of the Story,” a town loosely based on White Lake, North Carolina. “Finley thinks she…
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