Cara is like, 'yeah, we've pretty much been through the same situation.' And we're supposed to like her? Probably the most obvious foreshadowing would've been that cover (it looks like a romance).Ĭan we talk about how Cara takes advantage of Ellis' emotional distress? And when confronted, she acts like being un-friended is equal to having a dad in a coma about to die? Worse than about to die, our MC is supposed to decide if she wants him taken off life support. It's a chick-on-chick romance without much foreshadowing - I had the book with the other cover, with the swing on the front. I'm not putting this on the DNF because I did read it mostly. I wish I'd known it was going to get sexual (I put down a lot of books for that reason, especially when it pertains to teenagers). I liked the plot about her dad, and the prose, but the actions in the story made me uncomfortable, starting with the party scene and leading up to the point I quit, which was shortly after a hang-out session gone wrong. 'This coming out story takes the reader on her journey as she deals with the family dynamics, and tries to understand her own sexual orientation.I found this in the college library and read it. navigates volatile friendship dramas, explores her sexual identity, and struggles with her evolving relationship with her mother.” – Publisher’s Weekly he book traces 15-year-old Ellis’s complex emotional journey as she confronts the inevitable death of her comatose father. “Magoon ( Camo Girl) gently but unflinchingly explores difficult adolescent territory in this intelligent, affecting novel. Life goes on, but in those four fleeting days friends are lost and found, promises are made, and Ellis realizes that nothing will ever quite be the same, in 37 Things I Love (in no particular order) by Kekla Magoon, who won the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award for the Rock and the River, whose book X :A Novel (written with Ilyasah Shabazz) was longlisted for the National Book Award, and who earned the Coretta Scott King Author Honor for How it Went Down. But when all seems bleak, Ellis finds comfort in the most unexpected places.

Her best friend fails even to notice that anything is wrong and Ellis feels like her world is falling apart. Her father has been in a coma for years, the result of a construction accident, and her already-fragile relationship with her mother is strained over whether or not to remove him from life support. But even with vacation just within reach, Ellis isn't exactly relaxed. A powerful story about friendship, death, and figuring out who you are, from the author of How It Went Down, The Rock and the River, and X: A Novel (with Ilyasah Shabazz)Įllis only has four days of her sophomore year left, and summer is so close that she can almost taste it.

37 Things I Love by Kekla Magoon