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An Egg on Three Sticks
An Egg on Three Sticks | Jackie Fischer
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Finally Abby is thirteen. A real teenager who only wants to pierce her ears, have a boyfriend, and run her own life. But when her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Abby faces a life far different from what she hoped for. Set in the Bay Area in the '70s, An Egg on Three Sticks is Jackie Moyer Fischer's emotional, funny, and extraordinarily heartfelt novel about Abby's struggle to hold her family together, find love from a mother who has little to give, and simply try to be thirteen. With a voice completely fresh and honest, Abby takes us on a journey that is often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, and overwhelmingly hopeful. But a journey no thirteen-year-old should have to take.
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This looked promising: in 1970's Bay Area, 13-year-old Abby is a newly-minted teenager having to deal with her mom's nervous breakdown. Wheelhouse, right? Not so much. I just don't like Abby's narrative voice, and given this is narrated in first person, there's no escaping Abby. Frankly, I choose not to be trapped in a 13-year-old's consciousness right now...

Eggs I'm out of breath just reading first paragraph 7y
amy.wt That is the longest sentence 😂 7y
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