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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:05:13 -0500
I'm glad Emily reminded me that it's more than just Alex's interactions with Alex that reveal her "less-than-empathetic" nature (great description!). She mentioned Alex's interactions with her family, which also brings up another interesting dimension of the book to me: we learn in the opening sentence or two that Alex's dad has died relatively recently. And yet I was struck by the fact that this novel in which the main character is grieving the death of a parent is not overtly about grieving the death of a parent. It's almost a footnote in the plot, which is focused predominantly on Alex's relationships with Becca and Leo.
And yet she is grieving, of that there is no doubt. She is beyond the first wave of intense feeling and now, months out, is learning to live wthout her dad. But how that plays out is so wonderfully done; in a way it's more observational than emotive as Alex notes things she's doing that once involved her dad.
Author Julie Halpern will chime in starting tomorrow, and one of the things I'm curious about when she does is how much of Alex's character, her way of being, she took into consideration in choosing how to portray and reveal Alex's grief .
As Emily said, I hope others have had a chance to read or will seek out
"The F-It List." This was a standout for me as a work of realistic fiction in 2013.
Megan
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:05:13 -0500
I'm glad Emily reminded me that it's more than just Alex's interactions with Alex that reveal her "less-than-empathetic" nature (great description!). She mentioned Alex's interactions with her family, which also brings up another interesting dimension of the book to me: we learn in the opening sentence or two that Alex's dad has died relatively recently. And yet I was struck by the fact that this novel in which the main character is grieving the death of a parent is not overtly about grieving the death of a parent. It's almost a footnote in the plot, which is focused predominantly on Alex's relationships with Becca and Leo.
And yet she is grieving, of that there is no doubt. She is beyond the first wave of intense feeling and now, months out, is learning to live wthout her dad. But how that plays out is so wonderfully done; in a way it's more observational than emotive as Alex notes things she's doing that once involved her dad.
Author Julie Halpern will chime in starting tomorrow, and one of the things I'm curious about when she does is how much of Alex's character, her way of being, she took into consideration in choosing how to portray and reveal Alex's grief .
As Emily said, I hope others have had a chance to read or will seek out
"The F-It List." This was a standout for me as a work of realistic fiction in 2013.
Megan
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