Girl Unmoored
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.cs2654AE3A{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs2CAA79F6{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .cs566403DE{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. Fortunately, she’s about to be saved by Jesus. Not that Jesus—the actor who plays him in Jesus Christ Superstar. Apron is desperate to avoid the look-alike Mike, who’s suddenly everywhere, until she’s stuck in church with him one day. Then something happens—Apron’s broken teenage heart blinks on for the first time since she’s been adrift.Mike and his boyfriend, Chad, offer her a summer job in their flower store, and Apron’s world seems to calm. But when she uncovers Chad’s secret, stormy seas return. Apron starts to see things the adults around her fail to—like what love really means, and who is paying too much for it.Apron has come unmoored, but now she’ll need to take the helm if she’s to get herself and those she loves to safe harbor.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781936558308
Publish date: March 6th 2012
Publisher: Fiction Std, E Book
Pages no: 325
Edition language: English
In general, I am not a fan of "coming of age" stories. There's usually a life lesson to be learned, and it's usually beaten over the readers' heads.Jennifer Gooch Hummer's Girl Unmoored is not that kind of coming-of-age book. Taking place in the late '80s, the book is the story of Apron, a teen who'...
Free on Amazon 07/22/2012.
This book is not a book that I would have picked up on my own I don't think. The overview sounds good and it has a pretty cover, but it's nothing that really would grab my attention. That being said, I LOVED this book. It was beautiful and heartbreaking. It has some very serious issues in it, and a ...
E-galley received from Netgalley for review.It's 1985, and Apron Branhall is thriteen years old. Her mother recently passed away; her stepmother, a Brazilian immigrant who hates her, is pregnant; and her former best friend now hangs out with another girl. At her father's wedding, Apron meets Mike an...
Apron Bramhall is thirteen, and trying to make sense of her world. Her mother’s dead. Her father’s sleeping with the former in-home nurse, now live-in pain-in-Apron’s-life. Her best friend’s ditched her. And nobody has the time of day for her worries…Then she meets Chad and Mike. And learns that lif...