Half his age by Jennette McCurdy 17-year-old Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all is her creative writing teacher, Mr Korgy. He has the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks…
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Book Review: Trying by Chloé Caldwell
During the years that Chloé Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she’d read everything she could find on infertility — or, in her case, “unexplained” infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience, especially as most stories ended with success: vitro fertilisation or, you know, an actual baby. Writing…