Waar het licht is

Name: Waar het licht is
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SKU: 9789048844500
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Jennifer Niven

Kirkus Reviews

'KIRKUS REVIEWS
«ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
Author: Jennifer Niven
Review Issue Date: October 15, 2014
Online Publish Date: October 1, 2014
Publisher: Knopf
Two struggling teens develop an unlikely relationship in a moving exploration of grief, suicide and young love. Violet, a writer and member of the popular crowd, has withdrawn from her friends and from school activities since her sister died in a car accident nine months earlier. Finch, known to his classmates as "Theodore Freak," is famously impulsive and eccentric. Following their meeting in the school bell tower, Finch makes it his mission to re-engage Violet with the world, partially through a school project that sends them to offbeat Indiana landmarks and partially through simple persistence. (Violet and Finch live, fortunately for all involved, in the sort of romantic universe where his throwing rocks at her window in the middle of the night comes off more charming than stalker-esque.) The teens alternate narration chapter by chapter, each in a unique and well-realized voice. Finch's self-destructive streak and suicidal impulses are never far from the surface, and the chapters he narrates are interspersed with facts about suicide methods and quotations from Virginia Woolf and poet Cesare Pavese. When the story inevitably turns tragic, a cast of carefully drawn side characters bring to life both the pain of loss and the possibility of moving forward, though some notes of hope are more believable than others. Many teen novels touch on similar themes, but few do it so memorably. (Fiction. 14 & up)'

Jennifer Niven

Auteur

Jennifer Niven schreef eerder boeken voor volwassenen. Ademloos is haar derde young adult-boek en gaat over liefde, seks, onzekerheid en liefdesverdriet. Eerder schreef Jennifer Niven Op mijn schouders én Waar het licht is, een wereldwijde bestseller die bekroond werd met de Dioraphte Literatour Prijs 2016 door de vakjury en het publiek. In 2020 werd Waar het licht is verfilmd. Niven woont en werkt in Los Angeles.