Author: Berlie Doherty
Translator: Young-hee Jang
Publisher: Changbi
Hardcover | 298 pages | 195*155mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean only. |
About This Book
Told as a flashback, in some of the loveliest, most
lyrical prose to be found in YA fiction, Helen and Chris narrate the
consequences of one night's unprotected passion that changes the course of their
lives forever. With teen parenthood superimposing itself upon college plans,
both give voice to disbelief, confusion, and fear. Chris wants them to marry;
Helen's mother wants the young woman to have an abortion. When an attempt to
miscarry fails, Helen accedes to her mother's pressure. But alone at the
abortion clinic, she can't go through with it, and returns home to have and keep
her baby. Although Helen loves Chris, she writes, "I'm not ready for forever.
I'm not ready for him, and he's not ready for me.'' Her painful choice is to
break up even though she loves him. His bitter reality is exclusion from her
pregnancy and life and, by extension, the life of his unborn child. Doherty
adroitly explores the intricacies of love and all its twisting complications
through the lives of fully fleshed-out, believable teen and adult characters in
this compelling novel.
While the changing voices (Chris's perspective alternates with letters that
Helen writes to "Dear Nobody,'' her unborn child) are occasionally confusing,
the book's raw emotion propels readers toward Chris's reunion with Helen at the
hospital and to his first view of his daughter, who shocks him with her
vulnerability and importance. His final realization is the book's heart and
message--" 'I'm not ready for you, or for her. I'm not yet ready for myself.'"
--Alice Casey Smith
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