Cohn, Rachel & Levitman, David. Naomi and Ely's no kiss list.COHN Cohn , Ferdinand Julius 1828-1898. German botanist considered the founder of bacteriology. The first to recognize bacteria as plants, he proposed a classification system for bacteria based on genus and species. , Rachel & LEVITHAN, David. Naomi and Ely's no kiss list. Random House, Knopf. 240p. c2007. 978-0-375-84440-9. $16.99. (Lib. bdg: 978-0-375-94440-6. $19.99.) S Naomi and Ely live in an apartment building in Greenwich Village Greenwich Village (grĕn`ĭch), residential district of lower Manhattan, New York City, extending S from 14th St. to Houston St. and W from Washington Square to the Hudson River. . They have lived there their entire lives and know everybody in the apartments. That is both the blessing of their friendship and the curse. Naomi has a major crush on Ely and always has. Even as a little girl she dreamed of marrying him. After Ely says he is gay, she continued to dream that he will fall in love and marry her. Knowing his sexual identity, she is simply in denial in denial Psychiatry To be in a state of denying the existence or effects of an ego defense mechanism. See Denial. about the true nature of their relationship. Naomi and Ely have private jokes, their own places to go for coffee, and boyfriends they date outside of their friendship. That is all well and good until Ely starts dating Naomi's boyfriend! Their friendship can only tolerate so much. The civil war that breaks out has apartment dwellers taking sides and threatens to irreconcilably destroy the friendship. Through their pain and anger, they work their way back, not to where they were before the fight, but to a much more realistic place for the two of them to be. The story is told through multiple perspectives so that readers get to know not only Naomi and Ely but also the myriad characters intertwined with them and around them. Through each character, we experience different aspects of friendship set against the frenetic fre·net·ic or phre·net·ic also fre·net·i·cal or phre·net·i·cal adj. Wildly excited or active; frantic; frenzied. [Middle English frenetik, from Old French frenetique social scene of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Older adolescents will enjoy the pace. This novel includes adult language and situations. Janis Flint-Ferguson, Prof. English Lang. & Lit., Gordon College There are three colleges named Gordon College:
S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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