My Name Is Sus5an Smith: The 5 Is Silent
by Louise Plummer
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After years spent idolizing and championing her long-absent and much-reviled Uncle Willy, seventeen-year-old Susan, a promising artist, meets him by chance in Boston where she is spending the summer and determines, against all advice, to prove her irrevocable love and devotion.Tags
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I really couldn't get into this book. It was all right, I guess, but Sus5an was so naive I wanted to slap her. She was eighteen, but she seemed as young as twelve sometimes. And I don't understand why her family wasn't angry with her at the end, seeing as how she had stupidly given her uncle (a known thief and n'er-do-well) access to her aunt's apartment and he burglarized the place as a result. Were teen girls really this trusting back in the eighties? Is it just my jaded twenty-first century viewpoint?
I really couldn't get into this book. It was all right, I guess, but Sus5an was so naive I wanted to slap her. She was eighteen, but she seemed as young as twelve sometimes. And I don't understand why her family wasn't angry with her at the end, seeing as how she had stupidly given her uncle (a known thief and n'er-do-well) access to her aunt's apartment and he burglarized the place as a result. Were teen girls really this trusting back in the eighties? Is it just my jaded twenty-first century viewpoint?
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- People/Characters
- Sus5an Smith; Willy Gerard; Libby Smith; Thomas Roode; Dan Lavenstein; JoAnne Smith (show all 7); Russ Smith
- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Springville, Utah, USA
- First words
- On the same day that Uncle Willy deserted both Aunt Marianne and the United States Air Force, he spun me around at arm's length, grasping tightly to one ankle and one wrist.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I love you too," she said.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Tween, Young Adult, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .P734 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
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