false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173458006m/291095.jpg 291095 1 <b>These are the real five stages of grief: agitation, intoxication, experimentation, resignation, and reinvigoration.</b><P><P>Betsy knows that her summer job at a colonial village is going to ruin whatever slim chance she has of ever being popular. To make matters worse, Liza Henske, only the biggest freak from school -- piercings, tattoos, you name it -- works at the village, too. But when Betsy's mother dies, playing farm girl starts to feel like a great escape...from her shattered family, from the boyfriend who dumps her, from the friend group that goes <I>poof.</i><P><P>Fortunately, Liza turns out not to be such a freak after all. And James -- a lanky surfer who works at the village -- has started carving Betsy things out of wood. Being with him is the only thing that makes her feel normal these days. That, and cutting images out of black paper like colonial silhouette artists did, which she knows must seem strange, but life seems very black and white lately...except for things with James, which are a million shades of gray.<P><P> 282421 7 3 2006 The Pursuit of Happiness total:73|5:27|4:24|3:19|2:2|1:1| 73 293 134 11 5 2 false false Sun May 11 02:39:33 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 02:39:50 -0700 2008
According to the book ON DEATH AND DYING by Elsabeth Kubler-Ross, the five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. If you ask Betsy Irving, though, Elsabeth got it all wrong. The five stages of grief are really agitati...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 11:48:59 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 14:05:56 -0800 2007
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