The Free Fall Author:Jane Ratcliffe A brilliant debut novel that perfectly captures a teenager's struggle to stay real.I suppose the whole thing began with me looking for the shine. That's what I used to call that trippy kind of grace some people just seem to be born with. Jane Ratcliffe's debut novel perfectly captures the voice of a girl turning sixteen in a wea... more »lthy suburb of Detroit. By turns funny, perceptive, innocent and yearning for experience, Let is a character you immediately feel you know. Let's family lives by its own rules and routines which Henry, an irresistible nineteen-year-old with cheekbones like a mad dog totally disrupts. He leads Let on a wild ride of drugs and sex, and when Let meets Ryder, who is half wise beyond his years, and half lost boy warehoused at an exclusive private school, she is fully in the free fall. Older teenagers are eagerly responding to books that tell the truth about coming of age, which is not so much bleak as it is beautiful, terrifying and dream-like. In The Free Fall, Jane Ratcliffe announces herself as one of the new generation of fearless yet lyrical chroniclers of coming-of-age.« less
ISBN-13: 9780805066678 ISBN-10: 0805066675 Pages:342 Edition:1st ed Reading Level: Young Adult Rating: