We're an Open Book
In summer 2012 Jess attempted to read every Sarah Dessen novel in publication order and this winter I’m attempting a similar feat with David Levithan. If you are contemporary YA reader, Levithan’s mix of prose, eccentricity, humor and storytelling is something you have to experience.
From Fall 2013 – Fall 2014 I will be discussing and reviewing most of David Levithan’s novels ending with his newest National Book Award Nominated novel, Two Boys Kissing.
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Synopsis: Sisters Natalie and Alice Kessler were close, until adolescence wrenched them apart. Natalie is headstrong, manipulative—and beautiful; Alice is a dreamer who loves books and birds. During their family’s summer holiday at the lake, Alice falls under the thrall of a struggling young painter, Thomas Bayber, in whom she finds a kindred spirit. Natalie, however, remains strangely unmoved, sitting for a family portrait with surprising indifference. But by the end of the summer, three lives are shattered.In The Gravity of Birds histories and memories refuse to stay buried; in the end only the excavation of the past will enable its survivors to love again
I chose this audiobook for two reasons; 1.) I think the narrator, Cassandra Campbell, is amazing and 2.) I wanted to read more adult “literary-ish” novels….