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En route pour l'avenir
by Sarah Dessen, published on May 5, 2022 by Éditions Lumen.
His favorite quote:
I didn't know Eli at all.
That hadn't stopped me from noticing that the hieroglyphs next to him were a real joke.
I never knew if he was joking or if he was serious.
That's what annoyed me the most… or intrigued me?
Maybe both.
Why this book?
Because on the occasion of the release of the adaptation of Sarah Dessen's bestseller
on Netflix (May 6), Lumen editions are republishing
En route pour l'avenir
.
This contemporary young adult takes up the same ingredients that made the success of the author: transition to adulthood, introspection, family difficulties, friendship and love.
Because here we meet Auden as she just finished
her senior year.
For her last summer before college, she decides, on a whim, to go to her father, his new wife and their baby.
Although her talkative and superficial stepmother annoys her in advance, Auden would like to put some distance between her and her mother: a brilliant university professor and researcher, specialist in women in literature.
Sometimes condescending and hurtful, she puts a lot of pressure on her daughter who feels she never had a childhood.
Because this summer in Colby is an opportunity to live differently
even if, her mother says, people never change.
Unfortunately, on arriving, Auden is very quickly disappointed by the attitude of her father who puts the writing of her novel before his daughters and his wife.
Insomniac since her parents' separation, Auden will wander the streets of Colby at night until she meets another person unable to sleep a wink: Eli.
Because Auden spent her schooling striving for excellence, her
nose deep in books, and didn't have most of the experiences that are typical of adolescence.
Above all, she has not had the opportunity to meet many people and her social skills are to be reviewed.
Auden, who loves brevity and is easily exasperated by everyone, will have to learn to conjugate with her stepmother and a group of teenage Colbys, although that's the last thing she wants.
Filled with prejudice, she could however well be surprised by those around her.
Because Sarah Dessen dissects once again
– and again brilliantly – adolescence and the transition to adulthood.
His young adult novels are always page-turners full of sweetness and which often smell wonderfully of first love, holidays and the sun.
On the way to the future is no exception to the rule with interesting and well-constructed characters, simple but devilishly effective plots and a pen full of emotion that knows how to make us go from laughter to tears.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Auden leaves to spend the summer with her father in the small seaside town of Colby.
Brilliant student and perfect girl, the heroine now has only one desire: to have peace.
If things go wrong when she arrives, she meets someone who could help her live a normal adolescence.
Characters.
Auden is an intelligent young woman who spent her high school years immersed in her books instead of trying to build a social life.
Eli is a calm, thoughtful young man whose life was turned upside down by a tragic accident.
Places.
The novel takes place in the small seaside town of Colby and more particularly between the heroine's father's house in which the cries of a baby resound night and day, the clothing store of Auden's stepmother and the streets of Colby in the middle of the night.
The time.
The story unfolds over a summer full of twists and encounters that will change our heroine.
The author.
Sarah Dessen is the author of young adult novels published in more than thirty countries.
Born in Illinois in 1970, she earned a college degree in English and an arts degree.
She notably wrote the excellent Once and for all that we were telling you about some time ago.
This book was read with
pleasure by Anne-So Echos de Mots, blogger specializing in children's and teenage literature.
“For me, reading can be as much a personal pleasure in which one runs to take refuge as an excuse to discuss and meet other readers.
I am a lover of words always interested in new discoveries.
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