Staff Pick
When Jam and four others are given mysterious journals and assigned Sylvia Plath for a "Special Topics" class in a boarding school for fragile teens, they discover new ways to reconnect with their lost loved ones and one another. An insightful, moving novel about grief and loss. Recommended By Aubrey W., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Expect depth and razor sharp wit in this YA novel from the author of The Interestings. Entertainment Weekly
A prep school tale with a supernatural-romance touch, from genius adult novelist Meg Wolitzer. Glamour
Basically everything Meg Wolitzer writes is worth reading, usually over and over again, and her YA debut... is no exception. TeenVogue.com
If life were fair, Jam Gallahue would still beat home in New Jersey with her sweet Britishboyfriend, Reeve Maxfield. She d be watchingold comedy sketches with him. She d be kissinghim in the library stacks. She certainly wouldn t be at The WoodenBarn, a therapeutic boarding school in ruralVermont, living with a weird roommate, andsigned up for an exclusive, mysterious classcalled Special Topics in English.But life isn t fair, and Reeve Maxfield is dead. Until a journal-writing assignment leads Jamto Belzhar, where the untainted past is restored, and Jam can feel Reeve s arms aroundher once again. But there are hidden truths onJam s path to reclaim her loss.
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Meg Wolitzer on PowellsBooks.Blog
I loved to write from the time I was very young. My mother, Hilma Wolitzer, who is also a writer, encouraged me; and I had a teacher who invited me up to her desk in first grade to dictate stories to her that she would write down. I also told myself a serial novel on the way to school, about two brothers who were heirs to the Kraft Cheese fortune...
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