Forever by Judy Bloom
March 12, 2009 at 6:22 am 1 comment
Bloom, Judy. Forever. New York: Pocket, 1976.
It’s first love, first sex, and the first time on the pill, but does that mean Kathy will love him . . . forever?
AWARDS
1996 Winner of the A.L.A. Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature for Young Adults
REVIEW
One of my favorite things about this book is a little something I read on Judy Bloom’s website: she wrote it for her daughter, who wanted to read a book in which two teenagers agree to have sex and don’t get punished for it. Judy wasn’t playing around here: the depictions are literal and detailed, and for this reason Forever . . . has consistently been one of the most challenged and banned books of the last half-century. Passing by questions like is teenage sex ok? what kind of girl am I?, the book instead asks, well, we’re teenagers and we’re in a real relationship, so that means forever . . . right? Right?
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Elizabeth | April 5, 2009 at 8:11 pm
It’s such a fabulous book. Although I think Blume may have gone a tad overboard with how fulfilling the teens’ sex lives became so quickly. Still, a classic.
By the way, we’re currently discussing it (and it’s essential ’70s-ness) over on my blog, if you’re interested.