The Truth About Forever
The Book, The truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen involves a girl named Macy that goes through a loss and tries to keep control in her life. Her mom is always busy at work and she is drawn to join a catering service. She meets new friends and she begins to notice a change in herself. My friend recommended this book because she is a big Sarah Dessen fan. I choose to read this because my friend has great taste in books and she knows what kind of books I like.
I would definitely recommend this book to most girls. If you like characters that go through challenges, face reality and love then this is one you should read. The fact that it involves a death and family related problems will draw you in. The love story here is different and it gives you hope when your feeling down. My favorite part of the book is when Macy realizes that she has become a new person and she finally breaks out of her shell to prove her new self. My least favorite part must have been when her mother didn’t keep Macys promise and she ignored her and acted like she wasn’t there. The way Sarah Dessen wrote this was with the idea of being “perfect”, and what that does and doesn’t mean. She was also interested in seeing a character go through a loss, and how that affected the way she viewed the world.
Sarah Dessen was born in 1970 in Illinois, but she lived in Chapel Hill, NC most of her life. Her parents were both professors at the University of North Carolina. Her mom was a classicist and her dad taught Shakespeare. She was always a big reader because of her parents. One Christmas her parents got a little typewriter and she began to write her stories. She attended college at UNC, where she studied creative writing and graduated with a degree in English. She had a part time job waiting tables at a restaurant called the Flying Burrito while she tried to publish a novel at the time. Three years after graduating, she sold her first book called That Summer. A year after that she got offered a
I would definitely recommend this book to most girls. If you like characters that go through challenges, face reality and love then this is one you should read. The fact that it involves a death and family related problems will draw you in. The love story here is different and it gives you hope when your feeling down. My favorite part of the book is when Macy realizes that she has become a new person and she finally breaks out of her shell to prove her new self. My least favorite part must have been when her mother didn’t keep Macys promise and she ignored her and acted like she wasn’t there. The way Sarah Dessen wrote this was with the idea of being “perfect”, and what that does and doesn’t mean. She was also interested in seeing a character go through a loss, and how that affected the way she viewed the world.
Sarah Dessen was born in 1970 in Illinois, but she lived in Chapel Hill, NC most of her life. Her parents were both professors at the University of North Carolina. Her mom was a classicist and her dad taught Shakespeare. She was always a big reader because of her parents. One Christmas her parents got a little typewriter and she began to write her stories. She attended college at UNC, where she studied creative writing and graduated with a degree in English. She had a part time job waiting tables at a restaurant called the Flying Burrito while she tried to publish a novel at the time. Three years after graduating, she sold her first book called That Summer. A year after that she got offered a