SuitabookAll You Get Is Me
Yvonne Prinz
- Reading
- Before reading, discuss what the reader would want to know about farm life and workers’ rights. Afterwards, talk separately about Aurora’s family changes, romance, and her father’s decision to act.
- Themes
- Growing up amid change: Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm during an eventful summer involving love and major family change. The story clearly places Aurora’s personal adjustment at its centre, but it is not clear whether her changes are portrayed as empowering, painful, or unresolved.
- Family separation: Aurora discovers that her mother has left for good while she is adjusting to a new way of life. Permanent maternal absence is a significant situation in the story, but the emotional handling and any later resolution remain unclear.
- Rights and solidarity: Aurora watches her father take a bold stand in defence of the rights of undocumented Mexican farm workers. The book presents this favourably.
- Worth knowing
- The book may suit a reader ready to engage with overlapping emotional and social material. Its treatment includes profanity, sexual situations, and violence, whose detail and intensity are not clear.