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Great book - captures the awkwardness of being a teenager and navigating this complex world with heart and style!


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I really identified with Sayre's Husky, feeling like he really understood something about the adolescence of a child who is earnest, quirky, and struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. With Pretty, Sayre proves that he truly understands the private struggles of a child coming of age in a dysfunctional setting and struggling to make sense of social relations. With ample humor, pathos and insight, Sayre draws characters that are real and relatable. I highly recommend Pretty as well as Husky.
Pretty is a book that sneaks up on you. Told from the perspective of a teenage girl, Sophie, it reads almost matter of factly, allowing for the illusion of emotional distance. But as the reality of the Soohie's situation starts to sink in, and the casualness with which she confronts her everyday nightmare begins to buckle, her trauma will have wrapped itself around your lungs, and all you'll want to do is keep reading until you know that she will be okay; so you will be okay. I found myself verklempt reading this several times this week, usually on the bus... It's not what I expected, and I don't think it's what Sophie would have expected, but I'm glad I experienced it.
I read the first, Husky, in 2 days via audiobook. I read the second in about 7 hours while doing yoga, cleaning the kitchen, and crying at seemingly random intervals to the outside observer. the book is 6h8min long in this format, but, shavasana.

I can't speak to the accuracy of the portrayal of a girl like Sophie. Shes 13, I'm 32. She's mixed race, I'm white. She's she, I'm he. she's from the city, I'm from a strip mall turned into a small city. etc. I *can* say that the tears came from messages I didn't know I'd always craved (or TOTALLY knew, but cried to hear them anyway), but which made absolute sense to the characters' contexts as well.

The two books together are interconnected coming of age stories that make the difficult parts of life actually less difficult by dispensing with euphemism and sugar coating. I highly recommend them.

Pretty, and her Husky predecessor are both Beautiful.
It was a gift. Book received in good condition.
Great book - captures the awkwardness of being a teenager and navigating this complex world with heart and style!