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Member since: March 2007
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Reviews: 1
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My Birthday...: July 13
Hometown...: Big Rapids, MI
You can find me...: with my nose in a book.
Surprising fact about me...: I hate raw tomatoes.
Favorite band growing up...: Guster
Last good book I read...: Name All the Animals
My favorite drink...: iced tea
Favorite website...: www.coolworks.com

speravi13's Reviews

Name All the Animals

Deep loss and enduring love at its core.

avid reader

APR

2007

A tender, coming-of-age memoir set in Rochester, New York state, Alison Smith's Name All the Animals traverses the adolescent experiences of death, grief, and loving renewal in honest prose. The tragic death of Smith's older brother, Roy, propels her whole family into a state of prolonged grief over a young life lost. And in each succeeding chapter, the author recounts her parents' reactions as well as her own methods of coping in the three years following the tragedy. Smith creates candid, individual vignettes of her moral stumblings in faith, her discoveries of her own sexual identity,... read full review »