With multiple shredded relationships and friendships, there’s more than enough angst to go around, as Marcie rages against the decisions her parents have made, as well as her own. The formal variety of Tregay’s poems creates an immediacy that should maintain readers’ interest and sympathy for Marcie. Seven months later Marcie returns to Idaho, and things are more confusing than ever. Love and Leftovers by Sarah Tregay Marcie’s summer vacation with her mother turns into a seven month stay when her father finds a boyfriend and leaves her mother. A girl named Mister borrowed names: Shark Girl A Dangerous Girl Cinnamon Girl Girl Coming in for a Landing Brown Girl Dreaming. You are not here little dog, lost running with trains by the river. Images courtesy of publishers, organizations, and sometimes their Twitter handles. Love and Leftovers By Sarah Tregay On Sale: 9.99 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC.com Format: about Product Details reviews Romantic and bittersweet, Love and Leftovers captures one girl's experience with family, friends, and love. When she begins a heated relationship with popular athlete J.D., cheating on Linus, her sensitive musician boyfriend back home, she questions her nonphysical relationship with Linus (“I wonder/ if my boyfriend is gay./ That would explain/ why he never once/ took off/ my/ clothes”). Sarah Tregays List of Novels in Verse SPINE POETRY One night up from the sea Shark Girl exposed one heartbeat against the tide. Marcie is resentful until she realizes the move could be a chance to remake herself, escaping the image of a “Leftover” who doesn’t fit in. Sophomore Marcie Foster unwillingly moves from Idaho to her mother’s childhood home in New Hampshire after her father leaves her mother for a male bartender. Poems, IM conversations, and emo love songs make up Tregay’s emotionally turbulent debut novel in verse.
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