![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The intensity of their emotions will make hearts flutter, then ache as evidence mounts that Ellie's and Jeremiah's ""perfect"" love exists in a deeply flawed society. Both voices convincingly describe the couple's love-at-first-sight meeting and the gradual building of their trust. ![]() A prologue intimates heartbreak to come thereafter, sequences alternate between Ellie's first-person narration and a third-person telling that focuses on Jeremiah. In this contemporary story about an interracial romance, she seems to slip effortlessly into the skins of both her main characters, Ellie, an upper-middle-class white girl who has just transferred to Percy, an elite New York City prep school, and Jeremiah, one of her few African American classmates, whose parents (a movie producer and a famous writer) have just separated. Once again, Woodson (I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This) handles delicate, even explosive subject matter with exceptional clarity, surety and depth. ![]()
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