Shel Delisle’s first novel is a story of family, friendship, first loves and most importantly, freedom. Ever since a childhood experience Jane has loved dolphins. She understands them. Jane longs to* be free, like dolphins. Jane’s life was a fascinating* tale. Her mother was a very controling person. Her father seemed indifferent* to what was going on with his family. Her brother John was moving on with his life. The story is parallelized* with excerpts of a book about dolphins, and uses terminology like pods* to talk about group dynamics at school. In school, everyone stayed grouped together in pods. They socialized within their pods, stayed in one location during free time, and there wasn’t intermingling between pods to a large extent. Suddenly 16-year-old Jane finds herself becoming friends with someone from a different pod. She finds a boy named Sam Rojas, a star on the school’s swimming team, very attractive. They spend lunch together, and begin to enjoy each other’s company. Jane falls in love. Things don’t go easily for Jane. After being grounded* and a horrible date, Jane loses Sam to her ex-best friend. Finding it hard to deal with her mother’s control, she runs away from home. This book is a wonderful story of a girl trying to find herself in the world, a story about falling in love, being hurt and learning to forgive. The book is available at online bookstores such as jd.com.(SD-Agencies) |