The book I am currently reading by Jessica Sorenson
is, "The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden". In the book, Callie is a
social outcast. Ever since one of her birthday parties, she hasn't had any
friends. She cut her hair and made herself look as unattractive as possible.
The author has yet to reveal what happened that one night, but I can only assume it was horrific. Now in the present, she goes to a party to
pick up her brother. She was forced to go into the house and retrieve her
brother. As she's looking around for him she sees two figures fighting in the
backyard. She recognizes them as one of her father’s football players, and the players dad. The dad starts yelling and punching the son. The kid falls onto the ground
bruised badly. Callie runs over and asks if everything is alright. The
dad says "Yeah, just a misunderstanding", and goes into the house to get even drunker
than he already is. Callie runs over to Kayden and bandages him up. He won't
tell her anything about what happened so she leaves him. It's the first day of
college and Kayden sees her: Callie. The girl who saved his life and she didn't
even know. I predict that Kayden will go up to her and try to befriend her. She
most likely will ignore him and say anyone would have saved him. She hasn't
liked attention since that night at her party. She probably hates that one of
the most popular kids has taken an interest in her. I also predict that her
father or brother had done something abusive to her at her party. They refer to
the person as "him". She probably tries to look ugly so they won't
want to do it to her again. This relates to the world because, "More than
90% of juvenile sexual abuse victims know their perpetrator in some way."
This is why it could be someone in her family. This also relates to the book
"Lovely Bones", because in that the girl is sexually abused by her
neighbor and then killed. I am lucky that I haven't had to deal with any of
these experiences. I have read lots of books where the main character is trying to move on and forget about it. I think that's what Callie is trying to do.
http://www.childhelp.org/pages/statistics
Cassi, this is a really good article. The book sounds great and I now want to read it. You wrote the article really well and didn't give too much away. I liked how you made inferences based on other books you read, and I would have made the same inferences you did. The facts you had were sad but true and backed up your inferences 100%. Thanks for giving me a new book to read!
ReplyDeleteI've read this book too! I like how you included the statistic from childhelp.org. It really made an emphasis on the darkness in Callie's past. Where you surprised that it wasn't Callie's father or brother that abused her, but her brother's friend? I thought that was an incrdible perspective to add to the story. Have you read any other books by Jessica Sorenson? If not, you should read The Temptation of Lila and Ethan! It's a great book, but not as good as The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden. I think you gave an accurate review of this novel, and you're bringing back all the feelings the book gave me the first time I read it!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a very intersting book and I would like to read it some time.
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