Anna Begins by Jennifer Davenport6/5/2023 ![]() She graduated from Drew University where she majored in English and concentrated on Narrative Theory. The author grew up in Wyckoff, New Jersey, a small town outside of New York City. The two stories in Anna Begins explore the humor, frustration and depth of pain the come with the most awkward years of life: the teens. As both of them fall through the cracks at their school, they approach an ending neither of them can return from: Elly decides to kill her father. Elly just wants to be happy, but must deal with an abusive father. Scott wants to be famous and takes up celebrity-scale drinking. Scott and Elly try to navigate their junior year in high school. ![]() A Million Miles Up, the second story, is an upside-down tale of teenage love. Finding peer support in telling her own story, she decides to try to live the plot she is trying to write. In the title story, Melissa has an eating disorder, an absent best friend, a disconnected mother, her first sexual experience, and a story to write about all of it. I am a reviewer who would like to write about thisĪnna Begins is a pair of Young Adult novellas, each about a girl and a boy around seventeen years old. I am a professional book buyer considering purchasing this for my bookstore I am a professional / teacher considering utilizing this in a classroom ![]()
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