Apart

By Wendy MacIntyre and R.P. MacIntyre

Jessica, a serious, bookish 16-year-old from New Brunswick, places a personal ad in the hopes of finding her father, a drug-dealing philanderer who ran off with the local hairdresser, leaving... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888998341
• ISBN13: 9780888998347
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.5" x 4.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

beautiful and heartbreaking

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.