Fetch After The Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, And Flew Away Sketched By Joyce Carol Oates Accessible In Document

read this author before in the adult section, and with mixed thoughts but I thought I'd try her out as a YA author.
in a word: yuck. the drama is overthetop, the psychiatric help is absent, and the surrogate parents are willfully blind, whereas I found her characters in her adult novel behaving realistically, I thought these characters were little more than stereotypes, Whenever I read Joyce Carol Oates I kind of hate myself, It's overly dramatic and a tries a little too hard to be artsy, yet when I finish, I can't stop thinking about it.
It's a very haunting quality,.stars

This was a really great YA story about love, loss, injury and addiction, It had a good story line, relatable characters, some few important messages to take away but the writing style just didn't really work for me.


It's hard for me to explain how this book was written, It had really short chapters sometimes only a paragraph of a few lines and instead of pulling me into the story and making me more engaged, it did the opposite.
It was really jarring to read and pulled me out of the story, It also seemed like at some points it was trying to be much more deep then was really necessary.


I've read Joyce Carol Oates before, but one of her adult books, and I don't remember this writing style so maybe it was done for this book in general or just didn't work for this story for me.
“See, people come into your life for a reason, They might not know it themselves, why, You might not know it, But there's a reason. There has to be. ” Oh Another Joyce Carol Oates story in which young women are sexually abused by older men, No one presses charges and the cycle of violence continues for another Oates day, Oh, there's some other drek about a car crash and some hunky older boy that reads like it's out of R.
L. Stein.

Just awful. Jenna Abbott separates her life into two categories: before the wreck and after the wreck, Before the wreck, she was leading a normal life with her mom in suburban New York, After the wreck, she is alone, desperate to forget what happened that day on the bridge,

Then Jenna meets Crow, and her life is once again turned upside down, He begins to break down the wall that Jenna has built around her emotions, But can she bring herself to face the memories she's tried so hard to erase I suppose I should have expected that a teen novel about recovery would inevitably involve drugs, which means it would inevitably involve a rape scene.
If you were not expecting this, consider this a trigger warning, It's not graphic, but it's there,

Anyway, aside from the PTSD I will now have to deal with for the next few days, I rather enjoyed this book.
The title is poetic, and the rest of the novel follows that theme, cleverly using words, punctuation, sentence structure, and sometimes poor grammar

to illustrate a depth of feeling that is almost palatable.
It was very easy to empathize with the main character even as she makes unhealthy choices because I as the reader get an intimate look into the brokenness in her brain.
This isn't a romantic tale either I appreciate the break from the cliché "love fixes everything" rhetoric, While romance plays a part in this story, it is neither the focus of the book nor the solution to the conflicts therein.
I don't have much else to stay about this book, It's a raw and real book, but beautiful in its brokenness, Realistic, if not a bit simplistic picture of postdramatic syndrome a teen girl suffers after a car accident that involves her and her mom.
Drug abuse is the focal point of the story along with depression and finding a balance in new family structure, I only wish the turns the story takes were less sugary, . . Jenna Abbott is a high school freshman trying to come to terms with the car accident that killed her mother and sent her to the hospital.
Jenna vows that she won't let anyone get close to her again they always leave her anyway, So when she goes to live with her aunt and uncle in New Hampshire, she pushes her family and former friends away, choosing instead to befriend Trina.
Trina, who has many problems of her own, takes Jenna under her wing and introduces her to the world of cutting class, underage drinking, and drug use.
After Jenna is rushed to the emergency room to have her stomach pumped, she starts to evaluate her friendship with Trina.


Throughout the entire ordeal, Jenna's thoughts are constantly on two things: the car accident, and the mysterious biker named Crow who has caught her attention.
Will Jenna ever allow herself to let anyone in

This story had a lot of feeling behind it, Jenna is extremely broken by the events that take place, and does everything in her power to prevent it from happening again.
Her struggle to cross the bridges in her life physical and emotional make for an authentic story that was hard to put down.
It did drag a bit in the middle, during her "friendship" with Trina, and I found myself asking how many wrong/illegal things this girl could talk Jenna into doing before something bad happened or before she got smart and left Trina behind.
This was a very dramatic book, Jenna gets in a car crash which kills her mother, She moves in with her aunt and then connects with a group of kids at school that dont make good decisions.
I kept wanting her to turn her life around, but it wasnt until Crow comes and saves her that she does.
She has only a couple of times with Crow yet decides she is in love with him, Almost every scene, she would think about him, It got to the point that it was just annoying, The ending came very abruptly too and I didnt enjoy this book very much, This is my favorite book, I read it at a time where I was struggling with everything happening in my life as a teen, This book was really transformative in the way that you read it and don't think you'll relate but it kind of reaches you anyway.
En sån där vidrig bok när mamman dör, Jag minns ännu hur det blåa lugna havet visade sig vara morfin, Jenna Abbott wakes up sort of in the hospital after a terrible car accident on the Tappan Zee bridge, where her mother was killed and she was terribly injured.
Shes on so much medication that she seems to drift up out of herself and “into the blue” a phrase she keeps repeating to herself.
Thats where she wants to stay, too, so she doesnt have to think about whats going to happen now, Despite her wishes, Jenna does have to come down, and she does have to make decisions about her life now that her mother is gone.
She cant bear to live with her father, who left them for some new family that hes made, and who doesnt know her or understand her and hasnt been at all sensitive about the situation that shes in, so Jenna chooses to live with her aunt and uncle and their family.
Its a really difficult transition for her, She leaves behind all of her friends, her home, and everything that used to be important to her, Shes extremely prickly with her new family and doesnt make friends quickly or easily, Theres one person who seems to understand her Crow an older guy that goes to her high school, but Jennas too hurt and angry and then embarrassed to really open up to him until the end.


The one friend Jenna does make is Trina, and Trina is trouble with a capital TR, Shes reckless and careless and drinks, does drugs, and parties whenever she can, Jennas drawn to her for some reason, During the last party they attend together, a bunch of older guys get rough with Jenna and Trina, Jenna escapes serious injury only because she gets sick and throws up on one of them, The rest take Trina into another room, strip her, and attempt to gang rape her, Jenna manages to get help, but not before Trina is severely beaten, Trina refuses to speak to Jenna, and her mother moves her away no charges are pressed against the guys who raped her.
Jenna gets some flak from the guys who are still in school with her for ratting them out, Its Crow who steps in and defends her, and its then that she finally finds someone who understands what shes been through.


Theres no romantic ending for Jenna and Crow, We find out that Crow is a much more complicated person with a more complicated life than it first appears hes already got a daughter and as soon as he graduates, hell be moving to another city to live with the mother of his child.
Jenna discovers that she has the strength to go on and even the desire, Once she wants to live, things begin to fall into place for her,

Short, with short sentences, readers will race through Jennas troubled story, For those who like gritty, issuerich teen fiction, this will be most appealing, Jennas anger and drug dependence didnt do a whole lot for me I think because I'm not struggling with these issues.
I'm not sure that I ever did, I was most intrigued by Crow, and would have liked to hear a story from his perspective, Still, this was a decent story, and should be appreciated by a wide audience, Im glad that Joyce Carol Oates didnt give Jennas story a romantic ending this was much more realistic,
I have mixed feelings not a really good one tho reading this book, its a fast pace book which i could finish it off in one sitting.
At first its kinda boring and meh where you will be a bit frustrated with Jenna but as you went on its kinda captivating in some way.
But the repetitions of some sentences kinda get in my nerve tho,

But i totally can feel Jenna pains after the wreck, the feeling of the world is against you no matter which ways you're looking or even when you're looking hard enough.
Where you feel people just being nice to you because they sympatized of your situation,

However, Jenna is one lucky girl as she really has people who genuinely dote on her, Aunt Caroline's family.
Her mother's sister. And new friends she able to make Im proud cause one know how hard to make a new friend, and even harder to find a better one.


I like her friendship with Crow, Crow is kinda bad boy, who she had a crush on, I like how they meet and the progress of their relationship.
Crow is a good man by heart at least to Jenna,

Im gonna givebut I will settle withcause Jenna did pick herself up, and she wasnt desperate desperate girl.
Marking this three is strange, because this is a well crafted book, if not one that you enjoy reading.
It's short, and relatively easy to read, though it does take on hefty topics like drug abuse, drinking, and rape, I've read complaints about this book "trying too hard" but I enjoyed the way JCO played with words and structure, It gives the book a duality: flimsy, yet gritty, much like the life of our protagonist after she's involved in a fatal car accident.


I understood Jenna all throughout the book, even when I wanted to slap her,

I liked the character of Crow, but his involvement in the storyline was the weakest part for me, and the most forced thing.
There was a bridge scene that had me rolling my eyes, because it takes Crow likeminutes to get Jenna through some issues she's been battling all book long.
Okay.

Either way, I can appreciate this book for it's merit and substance, .