| A World Like This is the story of Brandy, aseventeen-year-old ex-con who wants tobecome simply ordinary. In a struggle matIs both poignagtand brave, she tries tobecome the kind of person wno can findlove and Keep it in a world dead setagainst her. After her release from Bullwood Hall, aprtson for minors Brandy is caught n aclash between the behavior she learnedto help net survive "inside" and mebehavior demanded of ner By life on theoutside. She soon discovers that hertougn, streetwise ways jeopardize her bid for free(tom n a world that pretends to De benign but is, in many ways. as sinister as me one she knew behind bars. As Brandy struggles with her new freedom she is helped by the lessons she learned from ner romantic relanonsnl 9 wire Roanna Reardon a pnson guard at Butlwooo Hall wno is ostensibly on me side of the law. Brandy s expenence with Reardon helps her evaluate me nazy line between right and wrong as she pits her- self against the traps of class, gender, and c rcumstance waiting to ambush in her pursuit of an ordinary life A World Like This is a profound and mowng nove Helen Benedict does not shirk the responsibilities of writing in a dangerous and untamaBle t me She deft y creates a modernworld el fractured tenderness and tougnness, exposing me hypocrisy of hope, yet never forgetting tne human capacity for caring. Brandy is a nero for an empty world. A World Like This is an important literary debut . |
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