I enjoyed Big Mouth & Ugly Girl so much that I decided to read this other book for young adults by Joyce Carol Oates. It is yet another tough subject dealt with brilliantly. Even though, I liked this book even better than the other one, I don't really...

What a lovely book! It really feels like JCO does not take young adults for airheads, and wrote an intelligent, not sappy, novel for them. Even though I am not a young adult anymore, this book really appealed to me. OK, it really reads like a JCO novel:...