Annotation:
Jam's boyfriend is dead and she can't bear living until a special English class at a boarding school for "emotionally fragile" intellectuals opens her eyes to a possible future.
Book Talk:
Jam Gallahue falls madly in love with the tall, romantic and gorgeous English exchange student Reeve and they spend 41 perfect days together until the unthinkable happens. He dies. Jam, unable to bear the loss, buries herself in the blankets on her bed and can barely function. After a year of serious depression her parents ship her off to a boarding school in Vermont called The Wooden Barn. There she meets others like her: drifters, misfits, sensitive souls with traumatic pasts they can't bear in the present. Jam is sure nothing will ever feel good again until she is enrolled in a mysterious class called Special Topics in English where the entire curriculum is based on the work of Sylvia Plath. This is where they learn about Belzhar. When Jam and her classmates discover how to go back to the way things were before their lives fell apart they each have to decide whether they want to live in an unchanging and comfortable past or an uncertain future. Find out what Jam discovers in Belzhar and see if she chooses love over life.
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Teen quote:
"It's not as dark as it sounds, ending on a hopeful note about transformation."
~Amy, 18.
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