![]() The aftershock of the kiss affects both girls, but this rich story also encompasses their struggles with family and friends, as well as their respective journeys of self-discovery. Camille connects with and then kisses Alec at a party, unaware that he has a girlfriend. Another senior, Becca, who tells her story in free verse, lives for her jock/poet boyfriend, Alec. She tries to avoid creating attachments, but is having trouble getting over a boy in Chicago. Camille, whose second-person narrative is light on punctuation and heavy on metaphor, has moved all over the country with her parents and is starting her final semester of high school in Atlanta. A love of language, literature, and the city of Atlanta, where she lives, pervades her sophomore novel, a thoughtfully wrought coming-of-age story. ![]() ![]() ![]() McVoy's (Pure) roots are showing in a good way. ![]()
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