SuitabookLove on Sight
Asli Jensen
- Reading
- Read alongside the child rather than relying on the title alone. Pause to ask whose viewpoint is foregrounded, and check in about difficult material if youth-justice experiences arise.
- Themes
- Unheard voices: The author’s writing is described as drawing on untold stories and unheard voices, including her own. This offers a tentative discussion possibility, but the novel’s specific viewpoints are not identified. Whether this is a feature of the book, and what stance it takes, remain unclear.
- Youth justice and young people’s experiences: The novel was written partly while the author worked in the youth justice system and drew on young people she came to know there. This connection may have informed the writing, but it does not establish whether youth justice or associated experiences appear in the fiction, or how they might be portrayed.
- Worth knowing
- Youth-justice experiences may involve difficult material, but the story’s specific harms, conflicts, language and emotional pressures are unclear.