Title: Before and After
Review: I like the before and after context of the story. It set the pace as well as the mood, so perfect for a coming-of-age novel. This book has all the elements - friendship, family, loss, grief, guilt, coping through it all.The story is indeed heavy but just the same, the author was able to lighten it with splashes of youth - things that teens think, say and do that make adults like myself (and like at least 2 of the adult characters in the book) shake our heads while smiling secretly.This just goes to say that we were also teens once - we've all been there, we've all done that. But now it's the younger set's turn to discover and we must let them be.
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