![]() ![]() ![]() Faith and agnosticism, drinking and puking, sex and virginity and love, Reinhardt brings it all to readers, but she does so in very realistic doses, with a sense of humor and a sense of hope. Is there a little too much of every possible issue in this story? Possibly. Simone does get to know her birth mother, a 33-year-old estranged from her Hasidic family, and dying of cancer. There’s collecting signatures for her mom (a lawyer for the ACLU) outside the Organic Oasis on the weekends the Atheist Student Association and school paper her crush on the paper’s editor her best friend who’s starting to have sex with a jerk and her younger brother who is suddenly a completely hot and popular freshman. Simone’s got plenty of other things going on already. Sixteen-year-old Simone has always known she’s adopted, and has never wanted to know more, not even when her birth mother calls out of the blue. ![]()
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