SuitabookGrief and guilt
Maggie’s mother has died in a car accident, and Maggie attributes responsibility to herself.
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Jennifer McMahon - Author
This is a character-led YA romance about grief, outsider identity and a transformative friendship. Its emotional centre is Maggie and Dahlia’s growing love, alongside music, unconventional behaviour and difficult social responses.
Maggie was looking for a friend in Dahlia. She never guessed shed find love, too.All the tenth-grade girls hate Dahlia Wainwrighta smart, natural beauty and freaky outsider all in one. And thats exactly what Maggie Keller is drawn to, for she herself is an outsider, having withdrawn from the high school elite crowd after a car accident that killed her mother - an accident for which she blames herself. But Dahlias friendship a manic journey into new identities and outrageous behavior transforms Maggie in ways she could never have imagined. In her stunning first young adult novel, bestselling adult author Jennifer McMahon paints a lush portrait of the healing power of love.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a character-led YA romance about grief, outsider identity and a transformative friendship. Its emotional centre is Maggie and Dahlia’s growing love, alongside music, unconventional behaviour and difficult social responses.
Maggie’s mother has died in a car accident, and Maggie attributes responsibility to herself.
Maggie and Dahlia, both portrayed as outsiders, develop a friendship that becomes romantic and sexual.
Dahlia’s friendship leads Maggie through new identities and outrageous behaviour; the girls also face school alienation and homophobia.
Be prepared for bereavement, self-blame connected with a fatal car accident, sexual content within the romance, swearing, mental illness in Dahlia’s mother and painful homophobia.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough.
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