For years, Josie and her mother were a family of two. Josie is in her final year of high school when she meets her father for the first time. Josie is starting to date boys at the same time as her mother is also becoming interested in male companionship. The dance of jealousy, love and trust between mother and daughter, Josie s ambivalent feelings toward her father and issues of responsibility in general are explored very well in this book. In Anna Fienberg s Borrowed Light , Callisto May has divided the people she knows into moons and stars.
Stars make their own light.
A moon just follows a planet around, like a dog on a leash. Padding along, it catches light rays like bones thrown by stars. Callisto categorizes herself as a moon. Callisto is 16 when she is discovers that she is pregnant. Her parents are so remote from her that they could be in another galaxy.