Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Jane in Bloom / Deborah Lytton / 182 pages

Jane is celebrating her twelfth birthday and is finally old enough to have her ears pierced.  She is a green-eyed, freckled red head in a family of blue-eyed blonds.  Her family is Presbyterian..".not religious enough to give me answers to all this.  Just enough to confuse me.  Like what kind of God allows a beautiful teenager to die..."  Jane's 12th birthday is overshadowed by her 16 year old sister's emergency room visit.  She is anorexic and bulimic.  Lizzie was perfect.  Jane is a shadow.

"I don't know that to do with the large open space where my heart used to be."
"Heaven is a place where you get to be in your favorite moment for eternity."

2011 Truman Award Nominee

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