Can it be said that Carolyn Mackler is channeling the spirit of Judy Blume...even if Judy Blume is still alive? I hope neither of them is insulted by my comparison. They both capture the psyche of the emerging adult so well--the confusion, the desparate need to fit in and the even more desparate need to stand out and be unique. And oh my god--the parents!
Carolyn Mackler took on the peer group as well--a bold move for her. Haven't you ever had a friend who was all about herself? Where you were just a sounding board for her, her, her? I have.
So, if you're a teenager fighting all the usual problems--not that I'm saying they're not problems, because they are and if you don't learn to deal with them in your own unique hemisphere, they will engulf you and devour--
Read this book. You'll make a friend, I think.
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