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Book Review By Jessica
Leaving Brooklyn by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Audrey is a 15 year old Jewish American girl growing up in the suburbs during the Post WWII Era. She comes from a middle class family and is comfortable, but she doesn't quite fit in because of a "bad" eye. Her parents try to hide his disfigurement by taking her to see an eye doctor who fits her with a contact lens to make it look normal. During the subsequent check ups, however, the doctor makes advances on Audrey and she loses her virginity to him. Although he is married and has kids, he becomes obsessed with her, and she is astonished because she feels very little for him.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1930's-1950's
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of sex: - molestation
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Taboo sex story? Yes
Lover is

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status:
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 2 ()
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast

Writing Style
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of hetero sex - Boob talk! - Vagia talk! - Weiner talk! - rape/molest
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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