Peeling the Onion
by Wendy Orr
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Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery with the help of her family.Tags
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Sakerfalcon Both books deal with a young woman coming to terms with a life-changing accident. Izzy is younger than the girl in Peeling the Onion, but faces many of the same issues.
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Many years before the rise of contemporary YA, Wendy Orr wrote this visceral and raw story, drawn in part from her own real life experiences. Anna bears the brunt of a terrible car accident, breaking her neck and suffering other injuries, which take some time to reveal themselves. Her anger permeates the story, often in the form of sarcastic asides (some of my favourite lines), as Anna rapidly casts aside any illusions of a happy ever after ending. Seventeen-year-old Anna's whole life has been derailed and she doesn't know who she even is anymore. A powerful, relevant read about the shattering of hopes and dreams and the remaking of them, cracks included.
This is such an emotional read. The story is very well written and the characters are utterly believable.
Anna, athletic and driven, is horribly injured in a tragic accident. As she leaves her old life behind, she is afraid that there is nothing left. She struggles to heal, love, and find out who she really is. A trio of poems that Anna writes using peeling an onion as a metaphor for the aftermath of her accident beautifully illuminates her state of mind as she comes to terms with her new life.
Moving.
Moving.
The car accident changed Anna’s life forever, crippling her, giving her perpetual high-level pain, and ending her future as an athlete. Anna comes back, slowly, painfully, unexpectedly, and, in the process, creates a new, better life for herself.
A seventeen year old’s fight to regain her life back after an car accident left with a broken neck. Learning how to walk by herself is not the hardest challenge she has to face.
Not a bad story. Easy to read.
Not a bad story. Easy to read.
Anna Duncan, zeventien, ligt behoorlijk in de prak na een auto-ongeluk. Ze leeft van de ene pijnstiller naar de andere toe. Ze struikelt, valt flauw. Ze kan zich niet concentreren op haar studies. De sportieve, atletische Anna zal nooit meer kunnen paardrijden, skiën of karate beoefenen. Ze moet de oude lagen van zich afschudden, als rokken van een ui. Gelukkig wordt ze omringd door mensen die haar steunen. Ondanks alle pijn is dit een vrolijk boek.
Nov 20, 2008Dutch
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Wendy Orr is the author of Rescue on Nim's Island which made the Wilderness Society 2015 children's book award shortlist in the category of Fiction. Her book, Dragonfly Song, was a joint winner of the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for children's nonfiction. Dragonfly Song also won the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, show more Children's literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1996
- Important places
- Australia
- Dedication
- For my family
and all my friends -
the ones who stuck by me
and the ones I met along the way - First words
- I've won.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But under all the layers
- a tiny green shoot sprouting -
I'm growing from inside.
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- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Children's Books, Young Adult
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- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
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- PZ7 .O746 .P — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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