After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away

292 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2007 by HarperTeen.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-073527-2

(1 review)

Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery. Includes a biographical sketch, interview with the author about this work, and a scene deleted from the original manuscript.

3 editions

crabbygirl reviewed After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away by Joyce Carol Oates

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1 star

I've read this author before - in the adult section, and with mixed thoughts - but I thought I'd try her out as a YA author. in a word: yuck. the drama is over-the-top, the psychiatric help is absent, and the surrogate parents are willfully blind. whereas I found her characters in her adult novel behaving realistically, I thought these characters were little more than stereotypes.

Subjects

Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Emotional problems -- Fiction.
Drug abuse -- Fiction.
Traffic accidents -- Fiction.