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Apart
by R. P. MacIntyre, Wendy MacIntyre
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Groundwood Books (2007-08-28)
ISBN: 0888997507
EAN: 9780888997500
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 192 pages
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
SKU: 05903
Condition: New
Comments: Brand new.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Jessica, a serious, bookish 16-year-old from New Brunswick, places a personal ad to try to find her father, a drug-dealing philanderer who has run off with another woman, leaving her mother distraught and Jessica responsible for her autistic brother, Timmy. Sween, a 17-year-old rebel from Saskatchewan, responds to Jessica’s ad, and the two begin an intense long-distance relationship. Each needs the other's support, as Jessica finds herself drawn to one of her father’s biker friends, and Sween suffers a meltdown that lands him alone in a remote cabin. Eventually, he fixes up an old motorbike and travels east to help his friend prevent her father from institutionalizing Timmy. The resulting encounter surprises them both — along with the reader — as they struggle to reconcile their images of each other with a very different reality
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Customer Reviews
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beautiful and heartbreaking
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-08-12
Jessica's home life really sucks. Her dad, the Gunner, has taken off with his newest girlfriend, her mom's pilled out and drunk, and she's on her own caring for her autistic younger brother. She places in a personal ad to find her missing dad and Sween answers, thinking he's found him. Sween's wrong, but the letters continue. (No email or phone calls because Jess doesn't have a phone or computer.)
Jess and Sween start caring about each other through their letters, seeming to fall in love. But when they meet, it turns out that they don't know as much about each other - or the people around them - as they thought they did.
I read this book in one sitting, eagerly waiting for them to meet. The ending was not what I had hoped, but was realistic and painful. Definitely worth a read, especially since it's fairly short. I loved the picture that the authors painted of Jessica's dad, Gunner. And the fact that he had some redeeming qualities in spite of his all too obvious faults.
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