SuitabookHidden distress
West is known as a confident, successful football player while privately coping with his father’s cancer; he eventually opens up to Maggie.
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Abbi Glines - Author
This is a teen-focused story about two young people carrying profound family trauma, with trust beginning through a private conversation.
To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: the cocky, popular, way-too-handsome-for-his-own-good football god who led Lawton High to the state championships. But while West may be Big Man on Campus on the outside, on the inside he s battling the grief that comes with watching his father slowly die of cancer. Two years ago, Maggie Carleton s life fell apart when her father murdered her mother. And after she told the police what happened, she stopped speaking and hasn t spoken since. Even the move to Lawton, Alabama, couldn t draw Maggie back out. So she stayed quiet, keeping her sorrow and her fractured heart hidden away. As West s pain becomes too much to handle, he knows he needs to talk to someone about his father so in the dark shadows of a post-game party, he opens up to the one girl who he knows won t tell anyone else.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a teen-focused story about two young people carrying profound family trauma, with trust beginning through a private conversation.
West is known as a confident, successful football player while privately coping with his father’s cancer; he eventually opens up to Maggie.
Maggie has stopped speaking since telling police that her father murdered her mother, while West faces his father’s gradual death from cancer.
West chooses Maggie because he believes she will not tell anyone else, and he shares his worries with her at a post-game party.
The family circumstances are intense: a parent is slowly dying from cancer, and another parent has murdered Maggie’s mother. Consider whether this level of grief and violence suits the reader now.
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