Title: Bitter reality
Product review: The isolation, fear and pain of Melinda in 'Speak' is the bitter reality of High School life for some. The way in which her 'friends' react to her when she most needs them is disturbingly typical and adds to the mean world in which she is struggling to survive. If you are ostracized at school you will recognize yourself and perhaps this will help you endure it all. Even as the author explores the most sad situations she does so with humor, wit and grace that inspire the reader to hope and care deeply. How can all this be fun and make you laugh? Anderson's skill and deft use of humor makes this a book to both understand the bitter realities of life and to laugh at them.
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