Although I really like to read, I'm extremely picky about books and I have a bad habit of starting books, getting bored with them and abandoning them. That's what happened when I started November Blues a few months ago. Recently I picked it up again and started over. Reading it made me wonder why I had ditched it in the first place. I felt sorry that I had and I'm glad I gave it a second chance.
Like many books I've enjoyed, November Blues is told from two different perspectives(Unit 3 vocabulary word!) One narrator is November, a pregnant teenager. The father of her child is dead and her mother has a whole future planned out for her. When November narrates, she talks about how she always felt bad for teen moms and knew how hard their lives were, but she never really knew until she became one of them. I guess that's how everything is; you never truly know what something is like until you experience it firsthand.
The other narrator is Jericho, the cousin and best friend of November's late boyfriend, Josh. He's also the ex-boyfriend of Ariel, a girl who used to be best friends with November and her best friend Dana, but left them all when she started dating someone else. Jericho feels somewhat responsible for taking care of November and her baby. He knows that Josh would want that.
Really interesting how you looked at the different perspectives!
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