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Taylor Before and After

By: Jennie Englund
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
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In journal entries alternating between two timelines―before and after a tragic accident―Jennie Englund’s heartfelt coming-of-age story follows the year that changes one girl’s life forever.

Before, Taylor Harper is finally popular, sitting with the cool kids at lunch, and maybe, just maybe, getting invited to the biggest, most exclusive party of the year.

After, no one talks to her.

Before, she’s friends with Brielle Branson, the coolest girl in school.

After, Brielle has become a bully, and Taylor’s her favorite target.

Before, home isn’t perfect, but at least her family is together.

After, Mom won’t get out of bed, Dad won’t stop yelling, and Eli …

Eli’s gone.

Through everything, Taylor has her notebook, a diary of the year that one fatal accident tears her life apart. In entries alternating between the first and second semester of her eighth-grade year, she navigates joy and grief, gain and loss, hope and depression.

©2020 Jennie Englund (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing
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Raw and Moving

This narrator gave Taylor her voice with impeccable timing and dynamics.
The main character, Taylor, is every middle school girl who finds herself caught between friends and bullies, popularity and isolation, love and hate, land and water, school and family, fall and winter. And before and after.
She prompts through the setting and plot with grace, naïveté, wisdom, and strength.
All the while, Jennie Englund keeps the narrative moving forward even while plunging into the complex issues of mental health, family dynamics, trauma, and life and death.
Further, Taylor’s Oahu comes to life as she navigates the island from the North Shore to Waikiki with stops at Pipeline, Sunset, the pineapple fields, Ted’s Bakery, Foodland, and scouring the shores for sunrise shells. She drags you out into the behemoth North Shore winter waves, the calm Waikiki beaches, and plodding along Kamehameha Hwy. She doesn’t even leave out the chickens, centipedes, and cockroaches! #IYKYK
Taylor will leave a tattoo on your mind and you’ll feel the sting of it long after it has scabbed over,
I highly recommend this poignant read.

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