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Girls in Trouble
Caroline Leavitt. St. Martin's Press: 2004 (hardcover). ISBN: 0312271220. 368 pages.
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Yes, folks, we're talking about girls in the very oldest kind of trouble. Sara is sixteen and pregnant, but manages to talk herself into the idea that she isn't. For the immediate future, all she's worried about is the disappearance of her once-devoted boyfriend. As the weeks turn into months, Sara's best option seems to be George and Eva, an older couple willing to partner in an open adoption. In the months before the birth, Sara, George, and Eva form a little family of their own. But when baby Anne arrives, all three realize that perhaps they've taken their intimacy a little too far.
Eva gets jealous, George gets possessive, and Sara gets desperate, desperate enough to get Anne back for herself, with consequences that will echo far in the future for all three of these girls in trouble. Check the back jacket and you'll find authors like Pam Houston, Elizabeth Strout, Gail Tsukiyama, and Kate Greenville in harmonious agreement that this emotionally wise novel will keep you glued to the page. Check out Caroline Leavitt's web site.
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