The father’s completely accepted gay relationship, although mostly in the background, adds an element of interest. Marcie’s loneliness and guilt drive the story until its resolution. Personalities stand out well, especially Marcie, Linus and J.D. Tregay’s choice to write in verse works well, her spare but effective language artfully evoking what otherwise might be a conventional high-school romance. When she does return to Idaho to live with her father, her relationships with both Linus and the other friends she left behind have changed. and allows an innocent friendship with him to become a romance. Meanwhile, however, she meets drop-dead handsome J.D. Marcie wants to return to Idaho and her friends, the “leftovers” in her high school, including her own boyfriend, musician Linus. Her dad, it seems, is gay and has begun life with a new boyfriend. Marcie moves to New Hampshire with her depressed and inattentive mother when her parents split. A girl cheats on her boyfriend, regrets it and writes it all in poems in this new verse novel.
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