An Egg on Three Sticks

by Jackie Fischer

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In the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s, twelve-year-old Abby watches her mother fall apart and must take on the burden of holding her family together.

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Incredible book. Told from the voice of a thirteen-year-old in short chapters with stunningly simple description of the breakdown of a family, the rebuild, and the breakdown, once again. The narrator's voice is both that of a child and adult, and even ifyou've never been through what she's been through, you can feel it like it's happening to you. Excellent book.
I found this book quite compelling, as it covers depression through the eyes of a teenager who has to come to terms with her mother changing. In addition, there is also an underlying tension around race that is never quite resolved as it should not in the 1970s. However, the ending is possibly just a little convenient in spite of being quite horrible.
Great Book! Told to you by a 13 year old who at times is funny, interesting and brutally honest!
There is only one way to describe this book... One of the best books I have EVER read! No other way... Great, great job!

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Fiction and Literature, Teen, General Fiction, Young Adult
DDC/MDS
813.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English2000-
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PZ7 .F498775 .ELanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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