The Truth about Forever
by Sarah Dessen
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Author: Sarah DessenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05
ISBN: 0756982758
Number of pages: 374
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Summary of The Truth about Forever
Sixteen-year-old Macy Queen is looking forward to a long, boring summer. Her boyfriend is going away. She?s stuck with a dull-asdishwater job at the library. And she?ll spend all of her free time studying for the SATs or grieving silently with her mother over her father?s recent unexpected death. But everything changes when Macy is corralled into helping out at one of her mother?s open house events, and she meets the chaotic Wish Catering crew. Before long, Macy joins the Wish team. She loves everything about the work and the people. But the best thing about Wish is Wes?artistic, insightful, and understanding Wes?who gets Macy to look at life in a whole new way, and really start living it?.With her sixth novel, award-winning author Sarah Dessen offers up another generous helping of finely crafted storytelling about real teens dealing with real life. In The Truth About Forever, when asked how she is coping with her father's death, invariably seventeen year old Macy Queen's answer is "fine," when nothing could be further from the truth. In actuality, she is drowning in grief while maintaining a flawless façade of good grades and unblemished behavior. Though she feels lost when her boyfriend heads to "Brain Camp" for the summer, she finds herself a job with the quirky Wish Catering crew, and meets "sa-woon"-worthy Wes, whose chaotic lifestyle is in direct opposition to her own. As the two share their stories over the summer, Macy realizes she can no longer keep her feelings on ice. Though it feels like her future endedwith her dad's death, Macy's learns that forever is all about beginnings. Dessen charts Macy's navigation of grief in such an honest way it will touch every reader who meets her. All of the Dessen trademarks are here: a girl in transition, a wonderfully fleshed out cast of secondary characters, and of course, the luminous, powerful writing itself. The Truth About Forever will more than satisfy Dessen's legion of fans, and will win her countless more as well. Highly recommended. (Ages 12 and up) --Jennifer Hubert
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