After the Moment
A new novel by the Printz Honor author Garret Freymann-Weyr, about a boy who discovers what happens when love fails usor we fail love.Maia Morland is pretty, only not pretty-pretty. She’s smart. She’s brave. She’s also a self-proclaimed train wreck. Leigh Hunter is smart, popular, and...
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A new novel by the Printz Honor author Garret Freymann-Weyr, about a boy who discovers what happens when love fails usor we fail love.Maia Morland is pretty, only not pretty-pretty. She’s smart. She’s brave. She’s also a self-proclaimed train wreck. Leigh Hunter is smart, popular, and extremely polite. He’s also completely and forever in love with Maia Morland. Their young love starts off like a romance novelfull of hope, strength, and passion. But life is not a romance novel and theirs will never become a true romance. For when Maia needs him the most, Leigh betrays both her trust and her love. Told with compassion and true understanding, After the Moment is about what happens when a young man discovers that sometimes love fails us, and that, quite often, we fail love.
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Format: hardcover
ASIN: B008SMQW54
Publish date: 2009-05-18
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Freymann-Weyr does not disappoint with this complex and multi-layered story of first love and its repercussions. Her characters, as always, are multi-dimensional, utterly believable and broken in ways nearly anyone can identify with. Her matter-of-fact treatment of several issues (anorexia, Asperger...