Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
Gingerbread stars Cyd Charisse. Cyd lives with her parents (Sid and Nancy - groan) since she was recently expelled from a fancy boarding school. At school, Cyd was in an abusive sexual relationship with a cool boy; they were caught and Cyd took all the blame. Cyd is suffering not from the loss of school and boyfriend but from a previous betrayal by that boy.
Cyd has a new boyfriend, Shrimp the surfer, and dreams of a wondrous "normal" life with her bio dad. When life at home becomes too awful and tense, Sid and Nancy do send Cyd to her bio father's home in New York City.
Cyd sees that her bio father wasn't everything she dreamed but she builds a good relationship with her half-siblings and comes to see the love and support that Sid and NAncy give her. Learning the back story of her birth shakes her life but it then settles into something more solid.
Lots of sexual references, groping of strangers, and quaffing of upscale coffee.
Cyd has a new boyfriend, Shrimp the surfer, and dreams of a wondrous "normal" life with her bio dad. When life at home becomes too awful and tense, Sid and Nancy do send Cyd to her bio father's home in New York City.
Cyd sees that her bio father wasn't everything she dreamed but she builds a good relationship with her half-siblings and comes to see the love and support that Sid and NAncy give her. Learning the back story of her birth shakes her life but it then settles into something more solid.
Lots of sexual references, groping of strangers, and quaffing of upscale coffee.
# posted by JJ @ 4:30 PM 
