SuitabookHomecoming
Elaine Harper
- Reading
- Read together and pause when Tracy weighs up the relationship. Invite your reader to consider what she knows for sure and what she is still guessing.
- Themes
- A complicated attraction: Tracy wonders whether it is acceptable to become interested in her sister’s fiancé’s brother. The premise foregrounds Tracy’s uncertainty rather than establishing a clear judgement about the relationship.
- Concern about drinking: Tracy wonders whether Biff drinks heavily and whether this could affect his basketball prospects. The jacket raises a concern, but neither confirms the drinking nor indicates the book’s stance on it.
- Friendship and attention: Tracy feels her best friend may be monopolising Biff’s attention. This suggests tension over attention, but does not establish the friend’s motives or whether the concern is well-founded.
- Worth knowing
- The story raises a question about whether Biff drinks heavily. The jacket does not establish how much he drinks, what happens as a result, or how the book treats the issue.