It's Love We Don't Understand

By Moeyaert, Bart & Boeke, Wanda

Publishers Summary:
In three episodic scenes of their family life, a fifteen-year-old girl describes the troubled interrelationships, alternating between love and hate, between herself and her siblings and their self-absorbed, neglectful, and often absent mother.

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ISBN
978-1-88691-071-3
Publisher
Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, c2001.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on July 1, 2002

Gr 7-9 A descriptive blurb states that this story has immediacy because it is told from a child's point of view; however, it is disjointed and confusing and seems more like an impressionist painting than a novel. The author's attempt at psychological drama disintegrates into a melodrama, because plot and characters are poorly delineated, relationships are vague, and motivations are indistinct. The story centers on a family's journey to and stay at a relative's house. Events loosely mark...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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