Melody Maysonet has been an English teacher, editor, columnist, and ghostwriter.
"Maysonet honestly, yet delicately, highlights issues such as
victim-blaming, shame, and difficult sexual relationships." --The
Horn Book Magazine
"Maysonet's...prose is unflinching as it illuminates one girl's
traumatic experience with deeply felt compassion and brutal
honesty...gilded with resilience and hope. An important book about
endings, beginnings and the choice to move on." --Kirkus Reviews,
Starred Review
"Beautifully drawn, convincingly flawed characters create a world
in which Tera's own childhood slowly moves from remembered
happiness to dark understanding. This debut novel skillfully
explores the consequences of self-deception, relationships, and the
lengths we go to please the people we love." --Booklist
"This debut novel is a powerful story showing how a person can
recreate memories to make sense of childhood until something
happens to make that person face the truth.... The story may help
those dealing with a crisis in their own lives." --VOYA
Magazine
"Whatever Melody Maysonet wants to write next, I'm in. She's an
author I can trust to make me hurt while I read and open my eyes a
little more to the world around me." --YA Books Central
"Melody Maysonet does a great job with describing Tera's thoughts
and emotions throughout her horrifying journey." --San Francisco
Book Review
"Maysonet's novel and its unreliable narrator Tera will make a
better human being out of any reader...you'll want to stay with
Tera and watch her reclaim her art and her life. Absolutely one of
the best dark contemporary novels of 2015." --YA Books Central
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