Love and Leftovers is a beautifully written story of one girl’s journey navigating family, friends, and love, and a compelling and sexy read that teens will gobble up whole. What does it feel like, really? can you even know it until you've lost it? But understanding love, especially when you've watched your parents' affections end, is elusive. She starts at a new school where a cute boy brings her breakfast and a new romance heats up. She leaves behind her friends, a group of freaks and geeks called the Leftovers, including her emo-rocker boyfriend, and her father.īy the time Labor Day rolls around, Marcie suspects this 'vacation' has become permanent. When her parents split, Marcie is dragged from Idaho to a family summerhouse in New Hampshire. Reviewed by Moirae the fates book reviews. * Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (December 27, 2011) Author Tregay has pegged today’s teens quite accurately, with clear language & heartfelt dialogue. Teens will love the IM chat conversations, the YouTube performances, the swift plot movement and character introspection. She meets new friends �' slowly at first �' and a special guy who makes her question her long-distance relationship with faraway Linus back in Boise. Marcie is swept up in her mother’s emotional flight, landing in New Hampshire where people leave off the “r’s” on words and add them where they’re not written. The plot revolves around her coming-of-age away from her friends, specifically her boyfriend Linus, in Boise when her mother escapes from the discovery that her husband is gay (which is not actually true, though this is explained later in the novel). If Marcie tells you about it, it matters in her life. Since the novel is written in verse, it doesn’t get bogged down by too many adjectives, exposition, or landscape descriptions. Martha Iris, aka Marcie, feels like a real teen. Love & leftovers is a fabulous new book by author Sarah Tregay! The narrator �' a Boise High School student whose mother has taken her from her home in Idaho to New Hampshire �' has a fresh, authentic voice.

Love and leftovers by sarah tregay