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Finding Jolie
by
Jamie Lynn Goldenberg (Goodreads Author)
Jolie Feinstein is a 16 year-old girl from a “good” family in an affluent New Jersey suburb. She’s popular, smart, attractive, and not unhappy, but the awareness of her mortality haunts her. Jolie seeks refuge in drugs and sex for a while, but a series of events and a revelation about an early childhood accident resulting in the death of her little sister pushes her to her...more
Paperback, 367 pages
Published
December 14th 2011
by Existential Press
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It's a charmed life, for the most part, for Jolie Feinstein; but underneath it all, Jolie is haunted by a fear of death that sometimes paralyzes her with terror. She especially experiences these fears at night, when the superficial aspects of her world (e.g. shopping, boys, sex, appearance, etc.) seem especially transparent. She suspects, that these trivialities allow she and everyone else, for that matter, to cling to an illusion that life has meaning. Jolie pins her hopes on a boy (and finding...more
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Wow…this story was so much more than I expected, the summary doesn’t do this story justice, so much happened, so many things unveiled, I could hardly believe the intensity of this book. The content was deeper and surprising than I expected. This definitely is a book that will open your eyes up to a world where drugs take control and people’s hidden identities come to the surface.
Plot:
The plot hit the major key points of a plot line but the ending lacked a great deal. Not that I w...more
Wow…this story was so much more than I expected, the summary doesn’t do this story justice, so much happened, so many things unveiled, I could hardly believe the intensity of this book. The content was deeper and surprising than I expected. This definitely is a book that will open your eyes up to a world where drugs take control and people’s hidden identities come to the surface.
Plot:
The plot hit the major key points of a plot line but the ending lacked a great deal. Not that I w...more
This is a fine debut novel (perhaps best shelved under "young adult") by a fellow psychology professor. It's a story about a young girl managing her emerging existential fear of death, by trying to live as much as she can, by embracing, rather than fleeing fraught interpersonal encounters as well as her own physical body. The book fictionalizes many of the constructs from a social psychological perspective known as Terror Management Theory.
I wasn't quite sure what to make of this book when I first started it. I figured it would be a typical high school story. Well, there are some typical elements to it but overall it's pretty unique. I found myself rooting for the characters and identifying with them. I did end predicting one of the plot points, but I didn't mind it because it was told in a sweet way. I certainly didn't predict the ending completely though. There were a few elements that pulled me out of the story, but overall it...more
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