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A Summer To Die: The Nature Of Unleaving
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07/31/09
07/31/09
The part when Meg comes over, weeping, and passes on that Molly asked that the baby not come until she's home from the hospital, then Ben passes on the message via shouting through Maria's belly and says, "Maria and I are determined to have an obedient kid" -- that, to me, was everything I wanted in a husband during a difficult situation.
(And I'm happy to say I found him.)
07/31/09
I absolutely agree with your assessment of death in YA lit, Lizzie, but I would like to point out what my copy of the book has under the author's bio:
"Though the book is not autobiographical, facing the death of her only sister when she was young made it possible for [Lois Lowry] to write about the subject with a good deal of understanding."
When I read that last time (I don't believe my original copy of the novel had such an in-depth author bio), I was completely unsurprised. Compared to, say, a Lurlene McDaniel death novel, this book is amazing.
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Yes, the characters are much more mature than normal YA characters, but in a very true way. I love that although Meg feels an inadequacy when comparing herself with her sister, it's not in a way that makes her envious of being beautiful for the sake of being more visible....instead she's envious of the way being beautiful sort of makes life easier for a while.
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I can dream...
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Sidebar: another Lois Lowry fave of mine was "Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye" about a teenage girl who tracks down her birth mother (and runs around staying in motels and stuff by herself at 17 - were teenagers just more mature then, as you suggest?).
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Also, in reference to that other venerable Lois, from 3/23/91: "I feel like reading. The Twisted Window by Lois Duncan. Good-bye....Omigod! I just finished T.T.W., and it leaves me breathless! It is about this guy, and a girl [crossed out]. Forget it. It's to hard a book to explain [sic]."
I don't remember a damn thing about either of these books, now, but maybe I should re-read them.
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Like, I'd get hit in the face with a softball and be all, "Oh noes!, I have leukemia!!!"
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What I was trying to remember is if Ben grabs Maria's breasts and says, "This is what we'll use to feed our baby," or if Maria does, or if I'm just imagining hippies would do and say that.
I loved this book and wept, wept, wept when Molly died. Thanks for bringing it back to my consciousness!
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