This book had a strong start. Teenage girl with a dysfunctional family, father suffering from severe PTSD from the war in Iraq, constantly having to move from place to place so that part of her life is wrecked, and her experiences at school as a result. Plus, the author is Laurie Halse Anderson, so ...
Laurie Halse Anderson is one of my favorite YA writers. I love Speak, and Wintergirls, and Twisted, but I struggled with this book.Seventeen-year-old Hayley has a lot to deal with: her first year at a traditional high school, her first boyfriend, an alcoholic/suicidal father, and a stepmother who sh...
A little more uneven than I expected. Would have been five stars, except I found the chapters of the dad's traumatic experiences distracting from rather than deepening the reading experience. It's otherwise so much Hayley's book, not her dad's, that they felt out of place.
Hayley has been raised by a pack of wolves. Oh wait! That's another story. The Impossible Knife of Memory is about a girl who is raised by a father who is out of his mind drunk or drugged a lot of the time. They have spent years on the road because he is a long-haul truck driver. So she hasn't been ...
Talk about disappointing. I normally love Laurie Halse Anderson and the fact that she writes about realistic, gripping, and grief stricken stories about teenagers. Impossible Knife of Memory is just that. But for some reason I couldn't get into the characters as much as Speak, Twisted, and Catalyst....
To know that everyone starts out as a freak according to Hayley, gives me great comfort. To know that we are all on the same playing field, no one better than another, we are all equals in life just passing through different stages, all freaks. Looking through the eyes of Hayley Kincain, life is com...
"It was always there - fear - and if you don't stay on top of it, you'll drown."The Impossible Knife of Memory encompasses a very difficult theme: post-traumatic stress disorder. Through a series of flashbacks, readers are given a glimpse at the horrors of war that Andy Kincain experienced - and is ...
The Impossible Knife of Memory is her seeing the truth …That what she wants may not be what she or her father needs …That what she wants may not be even what’s good for her for him… That what she remembers isn’t as bad as she her behavior have them seem; but neither as good given the way she is with...
I wept for Hayley the same bitter tears I wept for myself as the child of an addict-alcoholic mother and former wife of a soldier with PTSD. She and I may not have shared the exact same struggle but damn, this book was so real I felt like we could have been soul sisters. The feelings evoked by this...
be still my battered heart.... I wept for Hayley the same bitter tears I wept for myself as the child of an addict-alcoholic mother and former wife of a soldier with PTSD. She and I may not have shared the exact same struggle but damn, this book was so real I felt like we could have been soul sister...
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