So, I decided to follow in my friend Joy’s footsteps and join this weekly meme, begun by Sheila, of the Bookjourney blog.
Here’s what I’m reading, currently:
Book: Tell Us We’re Home by Marina Budhos
Genre: Contemporary Realistic Young Adult fiction
Publisher: Atheneum
Publication date: May 2010
Paperback: 297 pages
Right now I’m on page 94…. and am loving it so far. The following is just a short something about the book, and not meant to be a review or even a complete musing. The setting is a richy-rich suburban town in NJ, and the main characters are not, like in most YA fiction set in such towns, bitchy rich girls, but rather, they are the three daughters of women who work as nannies and housekeepers for the families of the rich girls. While such a book might strike fear into the hearts of those who disdain didactic fiction, be not afraid! This book (so far) does no such thing. There are such nuances! Such perspicacity! Such heart!
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June 20, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Joy Weese Moll
That sounds like an interesting book! I really like the cover — not that one should judge a book by that, of course.
June 20, 2011 at 7:47 pm
bookishdesi
funny that you should comment on the cover. I really like this cover too, although i usually don’t like covers where girls’ bodies are cut off from their heads. But here it really works to humanize the girl, rather than to objectify her!
June 21, 2011 at 10:19 am
litsafari
I loved this book. Interesting to see the cover of the paperback edition, which is so different than the hardcover! http://www.literarysafari.com/2010/07/review-tell-us-we-are-home-by-marina-budhos/