seven Months Ago, On A Rainy March Night, Sixteen-year- Old Willow's Parents Drank Too Much Wine And Asked Her To Drive Them Home. They Never Made Itwillow Lost Control Of The Car And Her Parents Died In The Accident. Now She Has Left Behind Her Old Home, Friends, And School, And Blocks The Pain By Secretly Cutting Herself. But When Willow Meets Guy, A Boy As Sensitive And Complicated As She Is, She Begins An Intense, Life-changing Relationship That Turns Her World Upside Down.
Told In An Arresting, Fresh Voice, willow Is An Unforgettable Novel About One Girl's Struggle To Cope With Tragedy, And One Boy's Refusal To Give Up On Her.
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seven Months After Killing Her Parents In A Car Accident, 16-year-old Willow Randall Has Moved In With Her Married Older Brother's Family In New York City, Where She Grapples With Her Overwhelming Emotions, As Well As Her Brother's Silent Anguish, By Cutting Herself With Razors. When Guy, A Fellow Student, Learns Willow's Secret, They Develop A Tentative Intimacy. The Stark Clarity Of The Present Tense, Third-person Narration Echoes The Numbing Effect That Willow Achieves Through Cutting-of Course Any Sharp Edge Could Do In A Pinch, And Willow Has Used Them All: Nail Scissors, A Steak Knife, A Man's Razor.... But Willow Is A Purist. Despite Explicit Descriptions Of Willow's Wounds, The Narrative Steers Clear Of Moralization-cutting Is Characterized As Part Of Willow's Fractured Sense Of Self, Rather Than Part Of A Larger Epidemic. Though Guy Mainly Serves As A Means For Willow To Rediscover Human Connection, And Is Never As Fully Realized As She Is, His Need To Understand The Girl Whose Favorite Book Is tristes Tropiques But Who Carries Razors In Her Backpack, Is Authentically Tender. A Credible Depiction Of A Grieving Girl's Struggle Toward Self-forgiveness. Ages 14-up. (apr.)
copyright © Reed Business Information, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.Categories:
- Teen & Young Adult
- Romance
- Contemporary
- Romance
Publisher : Speak
Author : Hoban, Julia
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2010-02-23
Number Of Pages : 336
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0142416665
ISBN-13 : 9780142416662
Item weight : 0.66 lb
Dimensions : 1.02 in x 5.43 in x 8.19 in
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