Hyacinth Girls: A Novel
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780553418057 (055341805X)
ASIN: 055341805X
Publish date: 2015-05-12
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adult Fiction,
Parenting,
Health,
Family,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Mental Health,
Relationships,
Fiction
Story starts out with Rebecca and she's guardian for her sister who's passed away. Alternating chapters of the present where Callie is being bullied at school and how her aunt is dealing with it.Also the other chapters are about the start of Callie's life and prior to that-when Rebecca was a teen he...
Prediction time: Lauren Frankel will become a popular, successful author of psychological thrillers. And when she does, this will be one of those obscure first novels that only hardcore fans read. Rebecca is a naïve and trusting 30-something who is raising her best friend’s daughter alone. Callie ...
Hyacinth Girls by Lauren Frankel takes on the issue of bullying through a parent's and a teenager's eyes. The book does an excellent job of capturing the desperation and the lack of understanding of both parent and child. It muddies the conversation by including other story lines, but at same time, ...
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