SuitabookForget-her-nots
Amy Brecount White
- Reading
- Read alongside a flower-meaning reference if useful, pausing to ask how symbolism shapes choices rather than treating every floral meaning as factual. Allow space to discuss grief before and after the prom sequence.
- Themes
- Grief and family repair: Laurel mourns her mother, while she and her father experience loss; her flower-related abilities bring her closer to an estranged grandmother. The story presents grief as a continuing family experience and connects unusual abilities with renewed family closeness.
- Romantic influence and agency: Laurel’s flower knowledge and emerging talents contribute to a wave of crushes among students, making her known as a florist to the lovelorn. The book leaves its stance open to more than one reading.
- Flower lore and identity: Laurel learns that she is a Flowerspeaker, part of a long line of women with special talents involving flowers and their meanings. Flower language functions as both researched cultural lore and the basis of Laurel’s developing identity.
- Worth knowing
- Bereavement is central: Laurel is grieving her mother, while she and her father are described as healing. Romantic excitement and a prom sequence are also prominent; the ending’s exact treatment remains unclear.