- Fiction, Child abuse, Juvenile fiction, Suicide
Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to her.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Chris Crutcher
- First published
- March 1, 1991
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Tandem Library, Perfection Learning
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606326414
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First sentence
“Gotta tell you this feels weird.”
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