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I really enjoyed reading this book. It's all about a sixteen year old girl whose best friend is a boy, London, who is in the year above her at school. They have known each other for seven years and are very close. The story is told in the first person from the perspective of the young girl (we never do learn her name - but as she says at the end of the novel 'my name isn't important').
The girl has suffered at the hands of an alcoholic father for many years and one night when things go too far, s ...more
The girl has suffered at the hands of an alcoholic father for many years and one night when things go too far, s ...more
This is a book about identity, a girl who seems to rebel against being defined by the things that happen to her rather than who she really is-which, she sets out to find out. I suppose this is what is meant by the term coming-of-age in the truest sense, by defining onesself for onesself. Although the character does not identify herself by name, she comes to identify herself as one who endures.
I found the writing here to be strong and the character very sympathetic, and never pathetic or self-pi ...more
I found the writing here to be strong and the character very sympathetic, and never pathetic or self-pi ...more
Mar 25, 2010
Laura
marked it as to-read
Aug 05, 2009
Kevis Hendrickson
marked it as to-read
