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Summary: Drugs, Love, and Isolation
Review: The best parts of Making the Run are its stark, yet evocative prose and the uniqueness of the main character, 18-year old Lu. Lu is not a stereotypical teen ager. Although she has a need to get high to deal with her life (as others her age in this small Kentucky town also do), she views her own life and feelings with honesty. Related from Lu's point of view, the novel's plot is simple, perhaps even predictatble, but it's strength is that it doesn't shy away from the casual drug use and binge drinking, the sex, the impulsive desire to get on with life, and the feelings of apartness that make up the lives of many teen agers. The book is at its best when dealing with her new and powerful attraction to the older Jay and with Lu's sense of being different from the others around her, even her best friend, Ginny. Death, both past and present, plays a powerful role in this young woman's life.
Rating:
Summary: Drugs, Love, and Isolation
Review: The best parts of Making the Run are its stark, yet evocative prose and the uniqueness of the main character, 18-year old Lu. Lu is not a stereotypical teen ager. Although she has a need to get high to deal with her life (as others her age in this small Kentucky town also do), she views her own life and feelings with honesty. Related from Lu's point of view, the novel's plot is simple, perhaps even predictatble, but it's strength is that it doesn't shy away from the casual drug use and binge drinking, the sex, the impulsive desire to get on with life, and the feelings of apartness that make up the lives of many teen agers. The book is at its best when dealing with her new and powerful attraction to the older Jay and with Lu's sense of being different from the others around her, even her best friend, Ginny. Death, both past and present, plays a powerful role in this young woman's life.
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Summary: Finding Lu
Review: The life experiences of Lu's final weeks in high school and Rainey, Kentucky expresses a real-life partier and her emotions regarding her life and her years growing up in a small town. Lu is a pot head yet she lives her life responsibly for the most part. Family is most important to her. Lu has a keen eye for photography that matters...each photo she takes tells a story.
Lu's romance with Jay is deep and breathless as is her relationship with her best friend, Ginny. Lu's life is centered around her half-brother, getting high, hanging with Ginny, soaking up Jay, working at the Steakhouse, visiting her Gram, and her estranged relationship with her father and the lose of her mother. Making The Run is Lu's story of life and death that make her who she is.
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