Freymann-Weyr, Garret. Stay with me.FREYMANN-WEYR, Garret. Stay with me. Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers . 308p. c2006. 0-618-60571-1. $16.00. SA * Freymann-Weyr writes about privileged New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of teenagers; she makes all those popular books (Gossip Girl series, etc.) about the same young people seem like light fluff. Her characters are brilliant, with fascinating families. In Stay with Me, the narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. is Leila, the youngest of three sisters. She struggles in school because she is dyslexic dys·lex·ic or dys·lec·tic adj. Of or relating to dyslexia. n. A person affected by dyslexia. , but she is especially gifted at understanding relationships. As the story begins, Leila's family is in disarray: Leila's 30-something sister Rebecca has committed suicide, and no one understands why. Each person is grieving. The girls' father and his wife, Leila's mother, decide to spend a year in Poland where they will be immersed im·merse tr.v. im·mersed, im·mers·ing, im·mers·es 1. To cover completely in a liquid; submerge. 2. To baptize by submerging in water. 3. in work at a hospital; Leila will stay in NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City to finish school, living with her sister Clare in the apartment Clare and Rebecca shared. Many characters are fully realized, including the adults, and Leila is observing everything, awash Awash (ä`wäsh), river, E Ethiopia, rising near Addis Ababa and flowing c.500 mi (800 km) to a swampy lake near the Djibouti border. The Awash Valley is important agriculturally and has hydroelectric plants. in her own feelings. Leila takes a part-time job at a cafe where she had caught a glimpse of Rebecca sitting with an unknown man just before the suicide--Leila thinks perhaps she will discover who that man was and what he might know about Rebecca's despair. In fact, she does eventually solve that dilemma, but in the meanwhile, at the cafe she meets a man in his early 30s (Leila is just turning 17) who is exciting--much more exciting than Ben, Leila's sometime boyfriend. To summarize the plot any further doesn't work well. What I need to convey here is Freymann-Weyr's ability to bring this world to her readers--a world in which adolescents and their families and friends have meaningful conversations. Leila is reflective, loving and caring. She stumbles through life, as do the people around her, but always tries to understand what is happening. Claire Rosser, KLIATT S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. *--The asterisk highlights exceptional books. |
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