“We are not supposed to comprehend something like this.”
How many times have you recalled, in conversations with friends and loved ones, exactly what you were doing when you learned about the planes crashing into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001? For me, my kids had their very first play date that morning with a new friend who has since become like a son to me and whose mom has become one of my closest friends. So not surprisingly, those two events--the 9/11 attacks and that play date--will be forever connected.
In David Levithan's newest title for young adults, Love is the Higher Law, three New York teenagers whose paths had barely crossed before the attacks find similar connections in the days, weeks, and months that follow. Claire, Jasper, and Peter, each in a distinctive voice, relate their story in alternating chapters. Insightful but not overly preachy, Levithan sheds a shining light on how a young person might have reacted to and internalized the horrors of that day.
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Love is the Higher Law
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