6/19/2023 0 Comments And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard![]() ![]() Teasing out strands of the past and the present, Hubbard masterfully twines together a story of one girl’s journey to self-identity. Emily is driven to write out her grief and horror (Paul shot himself in front of her in her former school’s library) in private poems she models after her inspiration, Emily Dickinson (another one-time Amherst resident). But the rules are broken in the service of her agency. She breaks the rules of the Amherst School for Girls-a boarding school in Massachusetts where her parents have placed her after her boyfriend Paul’s suicide and her abortion-when she feels she needs to. A strong, gentle, smart and powerful book about suicide’s aftermath.Įmily Beam is no goody-goody. ![]()
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