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A review by slc54hiwi
Happy Endings Are All Alike by Sandra Scoppettone
4.0
Somehow, I missed this YA title when I *was* a YA - probably I was busy re-reading MHL or Rosamund DuJardin!
This is an amazing book, all the more so since it was published 30 years ago. It's the story of two high school graduates - both female - who become lovers and then deal with a horrific aftermath that includes the sexual assault of one of them after a quarrel.
It's a bit of a period piece, given the slang and the wholesale adoption of early feminist phraseology, but still an amazing book. I wonder if it could even be published now, in a USA that has become far more right-wing and intolerant.
This is an amazing book, all the more so since it was published 30 years ago. It's the story of two high school graduates - both female - who become lovers and then deal with a horrific aftermath that includes the sexual assault of one of them after a quarrel.
It's a bit of a period piece, given the slang and the wholesale adoption of early feminist phraseology, but still an amazing book. I wonder if it could even be published now, in a USA that has become far more right-wing and intolerant.