Teeny little grief machines
By: Linda Oatman High
Series: Gravel road; Gravel road
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781622508839; 9781480663138
Subjects: Families; Teenage girls; Juvenile fiction; Girls; Family life; Fiction; Grief; Novels in verse; Teenagers
Description: Like watching a movie frame by frame, we watch Lexi is come unglued in this novel in verse. She's alienated from school and family. Her father is in the county jail. She cannot connect with her chain-smoking stepmom. Her brother, Blaine, is trapped in his own autistic world. And her infant sister's death has sent her into a spiral of grief and rebellion. Bright, witty, and irreverent, Lexi tries to navigate the rocky transition from adolescent to young woman.