Jordan MacKenzie had a typical teenage life until her fatherâs affair with a married woman threatens to implode her entire world in this searing and poignant novel from Printz Honor medal winner and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti.
People ask me all the time what having Vince MacKenzie for a father was like. What they mean is, was he always crazy?
High school junior Jordan MacKenzieâs life was pretty typical: fractured family, new boyfriend, dead-end job. Sheâd been living with her father, the predictable optometrist, since her mother, the hippie holdover, had become too embarrassing to be around. Jordan felt that she finally had as normal a life as she could. Then came Gayle DâAngelo.
Jordan knew her father was dating Gayle and that Gayle was married. Jordan knew it was wrong and that her father was becoming someone she didnât recognize anymore, but what could she do about it? And how could sheâhow could anyoneâhave possibly guessed that this illicit love affair would implode in such a violent and disturbing way?