#coming-of-age-fiction

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1 week ago

A Novel Tracks the Fallout of Free Love, and the Girls Who 'Went Away'

In 1968, an unmarried pregnant teenager navigates societal expectations at a private maternity home while the world experiences social upheaval outside its walls.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy the follow-up to I'm Glad My Mom Died

In her debut work of fiction, Half His Age, McCurdy continues to shake open a Pandora's box, shedding light on blurred parent-child boundaries and loss of identity due to over-enmeshment, with solid one-liners that feel straight out of a sitcom writers' room. Lead character Waldo is a high school senior whose life doesn't seem to be her own. She play-acts through sexual encounters and disassociates at the school disco (I stand off to the side watching, enveloped by a blanket of catatonia).
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