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Displacement (2011)

by Thalia Chaltas(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0670011991 (ISBN13: 9780670011995)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Viking Juvenile

review 1: Seventeen-year-old Vera leaves home in search of peace following the death of her younger sister, Amy. Her love of geology leads her to a small desert town where she meets the few folks who remain there including Lon, a half-Hopi man who piques her interest. Finding a box of unused postcards, she frequently selects one to be addressed to her absentee mother, whom she called “The Moth;” the postcards are not sent. Emotional trauma is a big point in this novel in verse as Vera refuses to contact Carole despite numerous phone messages and she thinks she sees Amy numerous times in the town. Some language might be problematic to younger teens.
review 2: Vera is escaping everything that reminds her younger sister who has recently died. Written in free verse... more Vera comes across as a very unlikable character and will have the reader wanted to shake her at times. She loses herself in a small mining town and takes on two part-time jobs. A touch of mystery will propel the story forward though it leads to an unsatisfactory conclusion. Overall a story that leaves something to be desired. less

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