To score his perfect home run-on the field and off-Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back.
Kendra covets the perfect face and body-no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there.Ĭara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. "Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. Like all of Ellen Hopkin's works, the novel is unusual for its free verse format. (Aug.Perfect is a young adult novel written by American author Ellen Hopkins. Means something will anticipate the still-breathless climax all others, including most of the target audience, will be shocked. Often, the twins' entries mirror each other, on facing pages: although used differently in the two poems, the same key words are set off in corresponding stanzas (“think./ How/ different/ life./ could be” reads one set of key words). Strategically placed concrete verse includes a poem about revenge shaped like a double-edged sword in another, about jealousy, the lines form one heart reflecting another, until a rupture breaks the symmetry at the bottom. Hopkins's verse is not only lean and sinuous, it also demonstrates a mastery of technique. Brief, gutsy confessions reveal a history of sexual abuse and emotional neglect, and it's not clear that both girls will survive it. We are corpses.” Raeanne seeks escape in sex and drugs Kaileigh binges and cuts herself. But ever since an accident, “Mom doesn't love anyone./ She is marble. Their father is a prominent judge, their mother is running for Congress, and both girls do well in school. The girls' family appears picture-perfect. ) takes readers on a harrowing ride into the psyches of 16-year-old identical twins Kaeleigh and Raeanne, both of whom are racing toward self-destruction. Using free verse as her vehicle, Hopkins ( Crank
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