num_pages: 211
description: These warm, insightful stories portray adolescents at touching moments of infatuation, awareness and recognition of the many guises of love. In the title story, Jennifer, from a tidy beige home, is dazzled by the free-flowing emotions of her friend Becky's family and the consuming love and secret wedding of Becky's restless, frankly sexual sister; Claire, in "Wearing Glasses, " sees in her parents' separation that love is not always clear and definite and that sometimes one denies something vital about oneself to please another; "Camouflage" movingly recounts the love and grief of a 16-year-old giving up her out-of-wedlock baby and then her brightening hope for the future; and in "Magic Circle, " Dobie realizes, in his father's infidelity in the family Volvo, and in his own sexual encounter in the same car, the impermanence of love.
language: English
title: Teen Angel and Other Stories of Young Love
titlecomplete: Teen Angel and Other Stories of Young Love
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Ballantine Books