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PublisherSimon Pulse

ISBN-101481407090

ISBN-139781481407090

eBay Product ID (ePID)201556175

Product Key Features

Book TitleBeauty of the Broken

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSocial Themes / Physical & Emotional Abuse (See Also Social Themes / Sexual Abuse), General, Family / Siblings, Romance / General, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes), Social Themes / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Lgbt, Religious / Christian / General

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenreJuvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

AuthorNot Available

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight15.8 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience

LCCN2014-006632

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsMara's voice is so honest, so original, and so compelling that I couldn't put this book down. This is a gut-wrenching, heartbreaking, beautifully written story., Heartbreaking. As exquisitely painful as it is beautiful, this coming-of-age tale will haunt readers long after the last page., Emotionally powerful ... A worthy addition to the growing body of YA literature with LGBTQ content.

Grade FromNinth Grade

Dewey Decimal[Fic]

SynopsisIn this lyrical, heartwrenching story about a forbidden first love, a teen seeks the courage to care for another girl despite her small town's bigotry and her father's violent threats. Growing up in conservative small-town New Mexico, fifteen-year-old Mara was never given the choice to be different. Her parents--an abusive, close-minded father and a detached alcoholic mother--raised Mara to be like all the other girls in Barnaby: God-fearing, churchgoing, and straight. Mara wants nothing to do with any of it. She feels most at home with her best friend and older brother, Iggy, but Iggy hasn't been the same since their father beat him and put him in the hospital with a concussion. As Mara's mother feeds her denial with bourbon and Iggy struggles with his own demons, Mara finds an escape with her classmate Xylia. A San Francisco transplant, Xylia is everything Mara dreams of being: free-spirited, open, wild. The closer Mara and Xylia become, the more Mara feels for her--even though their growing relationship is very much forbidden in Barnaby. Just as Mara begins to live a life she's only imagined, the girls' secret is threatened with exposure and Mara's world is thrown into chaos. Mara knows she can't live without Xylia, but can she live with an entire town who believes she is an abomination worse than the gravest sin?

LC Classification NumberPZ7.W264359Be 2014