The Truth about Forever (Teen's Top 10 (Awards))

The Truth about Forever (Teen's Top 10 (Awards))
by Sarah Dessen

The Truth about Forever (Teen's Top 10 (Awards))
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Author: Sarah Dessen
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05-11
ISBN: 0670036390
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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Book Review: Forever is Never Long Enough
Summary: 5 Stars

When Macy was little, her father used to drag her and her older sister Caroline out to local marathons with him and sign them up for the kids' track. By the time she was eight, Macy knew she was a good runner - fast, focused, flying. Caroline was no longer interested in running, so it became something that Macy shared just with her father. He'd help her prepare for meets, and they ran together in the mornings.

One morning, that all changed. Her ready-to-run father woke her up, but Macy told him to go ahead without her. She only stayed in bed for a few minutes before getting up and heading out on their normal route to meet him. Somewhere along the way, her father had collapsed. Just like that, he was gone.

A year after her father's death, Macy is determined to have a decent summer. She'll work at the library. She'll miss her boyfriend, who is going to an academic summer camp. More quietly, she'll miss her enthusiastic father. The house is quieter without him, especially late at night, when he used to order crazy contraptions from ridiculous television programs.

Despite her careful planning and without her consent, Macy's summer shimmers and reshapes itself after Macy's mother throws a party at their house and has it professionally catered. Wish Catering is run by the very pregnant Delia, whose little girl Lucy hangs out with her in the kitchen. Delia is assisted (to varying degrees) by Bert, Wes, Kristy, and Monica. Petite and constantly in motion, Kristy's personality is larger than she is, and the scars on her face are the only things that she doesn't immediately discuss with Macy. Bert is as anxious as his older brother Wes is steady, and Monica is bored and slothlike. Macy ends up helping the ragtag crew that night, not knowing that these people will become a part of her life - Wes, especially.

As Macy and Wes become friends, they ask each other questions, back and forth. This game, Macy says, is called Truth, and "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth." As their conversations become more serious, Macy recalls the day that she lost her father and struggles to keep her secrets to herself, no matter how much it hurts her to do so.

The Truth About Forever is about grief, acceptance, and everything in-between. It's about running - running for fun, running out of fear, running from yourself, running from the truth. It's also about to-do lists, kitchen messes, and really good waffles. It's about long conversations and comfortable silences. It's about forever, which is yesterday, today, and tomorrow - and forever is never long enough.

Truly, I really can't praise The Truth About Forever enough. Read it, read it, read it.

Summary of The Truth about Forever (Teen's Top 10 (Awards))

Macy's summer stretches before her, carefully planned and outlined. She will spend her days sitting at the library information desk. She will spend her evenings studying for the SATs. Spare time will be used to help her obsessive mother prepare for the big opening of the townhouse section of her luxury development.

But Macy's plans don't anticipate a surprising and chaotic job with Wish Catering, a motley crew of new friends, or . . . Wes. Tattooed, artistic, anything-but-expected Wes. He doesn't fit Macy's life at all&150so why does she feel so comfortable with him? So . . . happy? What is it about him that makes her let down her guard and finally talk about how much she misses her father, who died before her eyes the year before?

Sarah Dessen delivers a page-turning novel that carries readers on a roller coaster of denial, grief, comfort, and love as we watch a broken but resilient girl pick up the pieces of her life and fit them back together.


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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