![]() Although I am not gay, I could empathize with their feelings of alienation, and I drew strength from the fact that each girl ultimately followed her dream, despite the forces keeping them home and keeping them apart. Not one other character in the novel understood them, especially after they were forcibly outed. In the end, Liza and Annie’s relationship is an outward expression of their struggles to establish an identity within their family frameworks, while also dealing with a growing awareness of their sexualities.Īs a shy girl with few friends, the idea that every person has a soul mate, the way Liza and Annie were soul mates, was deeply moving to me. It’s a typical “Girl meets Girl, Girls fall in love, Girls get caught doin’ it” love story. However, when she meets Annie Kenyon ( while Annie was singing to the knights at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), she realizes that there’s more to life than following in her parent’s footsteps. Her dreams are to save her private school from closing down, and to study architecture at MIT. ![]() Instead, I got Liza Winthrop, student body president and classic over-achiever. At the time, I was a studious nerd who hung out in the school library in this book, I was looking for a little excitement and maybe a chance to moralize over bad behavior. ![]() The back blurb on my particular edition said something like, “Even straight kids will enjoy this love story” – I thought it meant “straight” as in straight-edge. When I first bought this book, sometime in middle school, I honestly thought it was about drugs. ![]() Publication Info: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) 25 Anv edition February 20, 2007 ![]()
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