![]() ![]() The novel starts off describing her typical teenage angst as she goes about her day, feeling overshadowed by her brother who has experienced life-changing trauma. Meredith Oliver is the youngest in her family her parents, are both dentists and her brother Evan, is a high school junior. ![]() That’s why I’m calling this one a ‘must read’ about mothers, daughters, trauma, and loss. ![]() The Fall of Lisa Bellow got under my skin – in a good way. I’m sure glad I didn’t give up on this one. Now I love my job teaching 8th grade, but sometimes at the end of the day, I just want to escape into a novel nowhere near my real life. Meredith is a typically self-conscious eighth-grade girl. Not only am I extremely picky about the novels I spend time with (have you seen my Instagram shelfie shots? It’s obnoxious how long my ‘to-be-read’ list is), but also I spend every work day surrounded by girls like the main character of the novel, Meredith Oliver. When I read the first page of The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo, I wasn’t sure it was going to be for me. This is me.”~from The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo: A Must Read About Mothers, Daughters, Trauma and Loss “Sometimes in the morning, while she waited for her brother to get out of the bathroom, Meredith Oliver would stand in front of her bureau mirror, lock eyes with her reflection, and say, “This is me. ![]()
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