Unbecoming / Jenny Downham.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc., 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 375 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780545907170
- 0545907179
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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YA Book
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Main Library | YA Fiction | Downham, Jenny | Available | 33111008370468 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Three women. Three generations. Three secrets. A Stonewall Honor Book! Katie's life is falling apart: her best friend thinks she's a freak, her mother, Caroline, controls every aspect of her life, and her estranged grandmother, Mary, appears as if out of nowhere. Mary has dementia and needs lots of care, and when Katie starts putting together Mary's life story, secrets and lies are uncovered: Mary's illegitimate baby, her zest for life and freedom and men; the way she lived her life to the full yet suffered huge sacrifices along the way. As the relationship between Mary and Caroline is explored, Katie begins to understand her own mother's behavior, and from that insight, the terrors about her sexuality, her future, and her younger brother are all put into perspective. Funny, sad, honest, and wise, this powerful multigenerational novel from international bestseller Jenny Downham celebrates life like no book before.
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by David Fickling Books"--Copyright page.
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.