Now Ill Tell You Everything (Alice)

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Some of it is really serious, dealing with sexual abuse and rape. A lot of it just deals with wondering — what is it like to have sex, and when is the right time? But it is always written from the thoughtful, questioning perspective of our heroine and one of the best examples of developmentally appropriate sex education in a book that I have ever seen.

Sex is something that is important and intriguing and exciting and weird and funny and potentially scary, and it is all those things for the characters throughout the series. The defining question of the series, in my reading of it, is what does it mean to grow up into a woman?

Alice lost her mother at age 5, and never really knew her. She feels this acute sense of loss throughout her life, even as she has a wonderful seriously, so wonderful dad, a great older brother, and as she seeks out and finds mother figures in other places of her life. Her hilariously prim but well meaning Aunt Sally, her older cousin Carol, the wonderful Mrs. Plotkin, and of course, Sylvia, the English teacher who becomes her stepmom. Of course, the great thing of this is that in her wondering, Alice grows into an amazing woman, who never stops looking for answers. Seriously I have no memory of these illustrated covers at all.

In this final book we get major series resolution. The final book starts at 18 and ends with Alice at age We get to see her through college, marriage, career, children, major things and mundane things. But as it went on I started to really like it. What an incredible opportunity to follow this character, who I started reading about when I was nine, who I followed as I grew up into middle school and high school, as she grew up into adulthood, parenthood, her career and her marriage.

Now I'll Tell You Everything

Alice gets married really young which annoyed me a lot, at first. But then when we see her marriage develop into a real, long-term storyline instead of just a happy ending, it gives the book time to address it as a life choice that was ultimately a good one, but had its downsides too. I was pleased that the sex-positivity and frankness of the earlier books stays present here as Alice becomes an adult. I love that she becomes a guidance counselor, and I especially love that she fights for comprehensive sex education at her school. You are commenting using your WordPress.

You are commenting using your Twitter account. I do believe that that is a loooong series. I hope the next book you read is better: Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

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Also curates books for the Singapore-based subscription box, Lit Treat. Closure is something that we often seek to come to terms with the end of something. Often it helps us resolve issues, so we can move on with our lives without dwelling too much on the past.

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I just thought about who she was and what made me laugh, and what made me cry. I knew that somebody would die. When I decided that it would be mark, it was hard to be his executioner. I really cried a lot about that. When I have a sad scene, I really, really cry.

Maybe I was identifying with his parents: He was their only child, and they had given so much of themselves to entertaining [his friends] coming over all the time, cleaning up after them. I just felt their loneliness, I guess. Which other scenes would you pick out as the hardest ones to write throughout the series? The death of her father.

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Another one that really made me cry was [Alice] asking her father how long her mother was sick, or if she had seen her in the hospital. He described his taking her to see the mother, shortly before she died. Her mother put her lips to her ear, and hummed her bedtime song. That was a really difficult scene to write. But these were all important scenes.

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The books contain sex, teenage pregnancy, a suicide at one point — as you wrote them, were there issues that you felt like you had a responsibility to cover? I just thought, in the life of a high school girl, what would she most likely face? I think that few of us get through high school without hearing about the death of a friend, in an accident or something.

I just tried to think, what would she generally encounter in high school? And I think we all knew somebody who was pregnant. We all heard of a suicide. We all met somebody that we assumed was gay.