Suitabook52 Reaons To Hate My Father
Jessica Brody
- Reading
- Discuss the arrangement as you read: consider who sets its terms, what choices Lexi has, and how the jobs affect her. This can keep attention on agency as well as money.
- Themes
- Work, wealth and independence: Lexi must take on a different low-wage job each week for a year to receive her trust fund. The premise puts paid work and inherited wealth in tension, but the book’s judgement of that arrangement is not established.
- Father and daughter: Lexi’s father is described as ever-absent, then takes a more active role by making her job experience a condition of her inheritance. This creates a conflict about parental intervention and trust; the synopsis does not establish whether the father’s approach is ultimately endorsed or criticised.
- Worth knowing
- A car is crashed into a convenience store, and the father-daughter relationship includes conflict and an imposed work arrangement. How these events are depicted and resolved is unclear.