Based on a true story signature style of writing a work of Modern Literary Fiction and Adult Literary Fiction. I want to be a Star is about Janet Johnson parents Dianna and Jason life until she was born and becoming a teenage girl growing up without a father at the most needed time of her maturity. The book walks you through the 1970's to modern today. The story takes place in Montgomery, Alabama, and then leads to New York, New York to Los Angeles, California. This story is about Love-Hate-Dreams-Wishes-Light- Darkness-Religion and Moral Politics in the working class and the Foreign Trade Class, with hidden attitudes of the 1950's being exposed with her parents paths into life's journey by decisions of authority figures in Law and Entertainment.