Gae Polisner
Autor de The Memory of Things
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: author photo credit: Rick Kopstein
Obras de Gae Polisner
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Polisner, Gae
- Otros nombres
- Miller, Gae
Polisner Miller, Gae - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1964-07-22
- Género
- female
- Lugares de residencia
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Educación
- Boston University
Brooklyn Law School - Ocupaciones
- Lawyer, writer
waitress
special events coordinator
babysitter
paralegal
lawyer/mediator (mostrar todos 7)
writer - Agente
- Jim McCarthy, Dystel & Goderich
- Biografía breve
- I write young adult and contemporary fiction. My published works to date are THE PULL OF GRAVITY and THE SUMMER OF LETTING GO.
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Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 464
- Popularidad
- #53,001
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 46
- ISBNs
- 43
This story was a gorgeous tribute to 9/11 and a really sweet tale of a developing friendship between two teens surviving trauma.
I thought Polisner did an excellent job of detailing the tragedy, and it meant a lot to me simply because I was too young at the time to really appreciate the gravity of the event. I think this book can be valuable to many teens and young adults today simply for the historical context and the way she so aptly recreates the events.
The girl's sections were all written in poetry, which threatened to quickly turn me off as I need to be in a certain mindset in order to be reading lyrical prose; however, the sections were short enough that they weren't disturbing and served only to shed some mystique on her and give an entirely different picture of how a mind might work after a tragedy.
I loved that Polisner included a lot about Uganda and the events there, because it really is so easy in our Western-centric media to forget many of the terrible events happening elsewhere. Kyle's friend had come to the US as a child from Uganda and I found it subtle yet powerful how Kyle thought about his background as the story went on.
I additionally loved that Kyle's uncle was suffering from paralysis, and had gone from living a completely ordinary life and being quite a hero to needing someone to aid him with the most menial of tasks. This really demonstrated how life goes on even after a tragedy and was really powerful in showing how Kyle hated that his uncle had to go through his own personal tragedy.
This was gorgeously written. I think it's a topic that needs exploring and for that a story as such could be done aptly by many; however, Polisner has written this extraordinarily and had me feeling all of the emotions.
This story was definitely a tale of hope and despite the tears I really loved reading it.
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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