Justine

by Harmon, Forsyth
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ISBN: 9781951142339
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Overview

Ali is a lonely teenager living an isolated life with her grandmother on Long Island in the late 1990s. When she visits the local Stop & Shop, Ali finds herself inexplicably and overwhelmingly drawn to a cashier, the seductive but troubled Justine, who is so tall and thin she looks almost two-dimensional as her long fingers flutter over the cash register. "There was something spooky about Justine," Ali says. "Her smile lit me up and exposed me all at once." Ali applies for a job on the spot.

In the weeks that follow, Justine takes Ali under her wing, and Ali's fixation with Justine grows. From Justine, Ali learns a new way to live--how best to bag groceries, what foods to eat (and not to eat), how to shoplift, who to admire, and who she can become outside of her quiet home, where her inattentive grandmother hardly seems to notice the ways that Ali keeps changing. But even as Ali reshapes herself in Justine's image, her inability to more deeply connect with her newfound idol leads to a series of events that will forever change the lives of these two girls on the edge of adulthood.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Harmon, Forsyth
  • ISBN: 9781951142339
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.80 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 144
  • Publication Year: 2021

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