The way I used to be / Amber Smith.
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TextPublisher: London : Rock the Boat, an imprint of Oneworld Publications, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 367 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780861546732; 0861546733Subject(s): High school students -- Fiction | Emotional problems -- Fiction | Rape -- Fiction | Emotional problems of teenagers -- FictionGenre/Form: Young adult fiction. DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn t change who she was. But the night her brother's best friend rapes her, Eden's world capsizes. What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved who she once loved she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she's supposed to tell someone what happened but she can't. So she buries it instead. And she buries the way she used to be. Told in four parts freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year this novel reveals the deep cuts of trauma. But it also demonstrates one young woman's strength as she navigates the disappointment and unbearable pains of adolescence, of first love and first heartbreak, of friendships broken and rebuilt, and while learning to embrace a power of survival she never knew she had hidden within her heart.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Young Adult | F SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111085802989 |
Ages 14 up.
Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn t change who she was. But the night her brother's best friend rapes her, Eden's world capsizes. What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved who she once loved she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she's supposed to tell someone what happened but she can't. So she buries it instead. And she buries the way she used to be. Told in four parts freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year this novel reveals the deep cuts of trauma. But it also demonstrates one young woman's strength as she navigates the disappointment and unbearable pains of adolescence, of first love and first heartbreak, of friendships broken and rebuilt, and while learning to embrace a power of survival she never knew she had hidden within her heart.
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