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Crossing Into Brooklyn
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To Find Your Future, You Have to Face Your Past
At sixteen, Morgan Lindstrum has the life that every other girl wants--at least from the outside. A privileged only child, she has everything she could ever want, except her parents' attention. A Princeton physicist and a high-powered executive, they barely have any time for each other, much less for Morgan. Then her beloved grandfather dies, depriving Morgan of the only stable figure in her life. If that's not enough, she suddenly finds out he was never her grandfather at all. To find out the truth about her family, Morgan makes her way to Brooklyn, where she meets Terence Mulvaney, the Irish immigrant father who her mother disowned. Morgan wants answers; but instead of just satisfying her curiosity, Mulvaney shows her the people in his condemned tenement building, who are suffering and have nowhere to go. He challenges her to help them, by tearing away the veil of shame, and showing her wealthy parents and her advantaged circle of friends a world they don't want to know exists. The temptation to walk away from this ugly reality, as her mother did, is strong. But if she does, can Morgan ever really leave behind what she learned when she crossed into Brooklyn?
At sixteen, Morgan Lindstrum has the life that every other girl wants--at least from the outside. A privileged only child, she has everything she could ever want, except her parents' attention. A Princeton physicist and a high-powered executive, they barely have any time for each other, much less for Morgan. Then her beloved grandfather dies, depriving Morgan of the only stable figure in her life. If that's not enough, she suddenly finds out he was never her grandfather at all. To find out the truth about her family, Morgan makes her way to Brooklyn, where she meets Terence Mulvaney, the Irish immigrant father who her mother disowned. Morgan wants answers; but instead of just satisfying her curiosity, Mulvaney shows her the people in his condemned tenement building, who are suffering and have nowhere to go. He challenges her to help them, by tearing away the veil of shame, and showing her wealthy parents and her advantaged circle of friends a world they don't want to know exists. The temptation to walk away from this ugly reality, as her mother did, is strong. But if she does, can Morgan ever really leave behind what she learned when she crossed into Brooklyn?
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crossing into Brooklyn is an engrossing book about a 16 year old girl, Morgan, who comes-of-age in a family filled with secrets and evasions. Once Morgan finds out the truth about her mother's identity and pieces together some of the reasons for the detachment and coldness that underlie her family dynamic she immerses herself in a quest to understand her own complex feelings about her lineage, class and social standing, poverty and suffering. Another theme in the book is Morgan's developing sexuality and how to be honest in the face of social and sexual pressures.In some ways, Morgan is like her mother. She is not particularly warm though she does have some passion. Like many adolescent girls it is hard for her to understand her mother's point of view but as she comes to understand more about her maternal grandfather she does feel some compassion for her. As she gets to know him she becomes more sure of herself, stands up to her parents, feels less shame with her friends and family and becomes more fleshed out with a fuller sense of herself.I did not particularly understand the point about Morgan's friend/sometimes boyfriend Ansel. The virgin/whore split that Morgan felt and Ansel seemed to create felt pointless and underdeveloped. What seemed to be a good friendship became bogged down in this dynamic and I could not understand the reason. Otherwise, I was completely absorbed by Morgan's story and how in crossing Brooklyn she found herself. Thank you Edelweiss for allowing me to review this book for an honest opinion.