Friday, April 17, 2009
Uncategorized Terra Elan McVoy writes from a Pure place
Posted by Web Editor on Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:39 PM
By David Lee Simmons
Tabitha McAbe's mind and heart are running in several directions all at once. She's worried that she and her friends' commitment to abstinence has been compromised. She's worried that she'll lose her best friend. She's worried that Jake, a new boy in her life, might not like her. She's worried her secular parents don't get her blossoming Christian faith.
Oh, and she's worried about her yearbook deadline.
Welcome back to high school, an experience that never seems so dramatic in hindsight but always feels like life-and-death when you're going through it. And in Pure, debut novelist and Atlanta resident Terra Elan McVoy examines life as a teen who's grappling with growth on almost too many levels: spirituality, interpersonal relationships and, yes, sexuality.
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