3.5
Untwine
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“A genuinely moving exploration of the pain of separation” from the New York Times-bestselling author and National Book Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review).
NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work
2015 VOYA Magazine Perfect Ten
CCBC Choices List Selection
Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2016
New York Public Library Best Books for Teens Selection
Giselle Boyer and her identical twin, Isabelle, are as close as sisters can be, even as their family seems to be unraveling. Then the Boyers have a tragic encounter that will shatter everyone’s world forever.
Giselle wakes up in the hospital, injured and unable to speak or move. Trapped in the prison of her own body, Giselle must revisit her past in order to understand how the people closest to her—her friends, her parents, and above all, Isabelle, her twin—have shaped and defined her. Will she allow her love for her family and friends to lead her to recovery? Or will she remain lost in a spiral of longing and regret?
Untwine is a spellbinding tale, lyrical and filled with love, mystery, humor, and heartbreak. Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat brings her extraordinary talent to this graceful and unflinching examination of the bonds of friendship, romance, family, the horrors of loss, and the strength we must discover in ourselves when all seems hopeless.
“While Danticat fully grounds Giselle in her identity as a Haitian-American teen in Miami, this gentle young artist could speak to any teen anywhere coping with a major loss.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work
2015 VOYA Magazine Perfect Ten
CCBC Choices List Selection
Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2016
New York Public Library Best Books for Teens Selection
Giselle Boyer and her identical twin, Isabelle, are as close as sisters can be, even as their family seems to be unraveling. Then the Boyers have a tragic encounter that will shatter everyone’s world forever.
Giselle wakes up in the hospital, injured and unable to speak or move. Trapped in the prison of her own body, Giselle must revisit her past in order to understand how the people closest to her—her friends, her parents, and above all, Isabelle, her twin—have shaped and defined her. Will she allow her love for her family and friends to lead her to recovery? Or will she remain lost in a spiral of longing and regret?
Untwine is a spellbinding tale, lyrical and filled with love, mystery, humor, and heartbreak. Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat brings her extraordinary talent to this graceful and unflinching examination of the bonds of friendship, romance, family, the horrors of loss, and the strength we must discover in ourselves when all seems hopeless.
“While Danticat fully grounds Giselle in her identity as a Haitian-American teen in Miami, this gentle young artist could speak to any teen anywhere coping with a major loss.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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“It’s an okay book, not overly remarkable but not bad. I was disappointed on how short Giselle was in a coma, since the synopsis seemed to be setting up for almost the entire book to be about her in a coma, and that her recovery would be implied at the end in a “_ years later” epilogue instead of us actually getting to see part of it. The ending also felt rushed, and I think the book as a whole would shine more if the author had written more details about Giselle’s emotions during her recovery. It’s a first-person story, but I never felt like I could feel what Giselle was feeling, as I can with other first-person books and even non first-person books. You could argue that Giselle was numb for the most part, and while it’s valid and probably partially accurate, we barely even get a “i didn’t know what to feel, almost like I was numb” and so it feels disjointed. To add about the general poor pacing of the story, it felt like she was sent home from the hospital wayyyy too quickly. While I know quick recoveries can occur, it didn’t seem like the doctors did many tests after she woke up other than assessing her standard functions. And she was talking, standing, AND walking all in one afternoon when she was basically a husk the day before. Make it make sense. This being said, I don’t think these things im critical about make it bad, I just don’t think it’s necessarily worthy of much praise and acclaim. The size does it no justice.”Michelle
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Change and growDiverse representationLikeableMemorableMultilayeredOriginalStrong relationshipsUnforgettable protagonistAddictiveClever plottingSatisfying conclusionWell-structuredForgettableLack of depthRealisticSetting fits the storyBeautifully-writtenEasy to readStraightforwardChild lossDeathGrief
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About Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the author of many award-winning books, including Untwine, an NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club pick; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award nominee; Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle winner and Huit jours. She is also a recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant. Edwidge lives with her family in Miami, Florida.
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