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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Book of the Day: Garret Freymann-Weyr, My Heartbeat


Ellen and her older brother Link live in Manhattan.  Upon entering the high school her brother and attends, Ellen discovers that other students in the school believe that her brother and his best friend  James are a couple.  This confuses Ellen, since she has always had a crush on James.  Ellen's revelation sets off a chain of circumstances related to sexual identity, as Ellen, Link and James and  struggle with issues of love, society and self-definition.

To find out more about what other readers thought of this book, click here for the LibraryThing discussion and here for Amazon reviews.


Weyr, Garret. My heartbeat. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002.




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