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A Place For Us (2013)

by Liza Gyllenhaal(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0451239237 (ISBN13: 9780451239235)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

NAL Trade

review 1: A beautifully written story about a teenage boy and his family. Alcoholism runs in the family and is never spoken of. The son begins to drink to deal with typical teen angst. Unbeknownst consequences occur which impact his closest friends and family. The story told in the near third person deals with the struggles of parenting teens and the perils of teenaged drinking. It is fictional story but deals with a difficult topic in a responsible and thought provoking manner. This is an important read and would be a great choice for a summer reading for high school students or book clubs.
review 2: In this story, an ordinary family undergoes an extraordinary calamity and from page one, the characters are so perceptively drawn, and seem so real, that they might we... morell have been pulled from a recent news story. On the surface, the plot centers on an incident, involving teenage drinking, that results in an assault. A subsequent lawsuit alleges the parents are to blame, that even though they weren't in the home at the time, they're responsible. And that much is riveting enough, but the true beauty of this novels lies in the way it exposes human nature and relationships, not only its frailty but its strength, not only what lies on the surface, but what lies beneath it. How far will you go to avoid the truth when you are in danger of losing everything, your marriage, your children, your family? This is the sort of story that I would write and one I found compelling to read. less

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